The Touchstone Individual Poems Award Committee Announces its Shortlist for 2014
The Touchstone Individual Poems Award recognizes excellence and innovation in English-language haiku and senryū published in juried public venues during each calendar year. The committee received an overwhelming response to its call for submissions for poems published in 2014, with nearly 500 nominations. To those many editors and individual haiku poets who answered the call this year, a sincere thank you.
After much deliberation, the panel has selected a shortlist of poems that will move on to the final round. Thanks, too, to the distinguished panelists who have been so generous with their time and effort over the past few months.
Touchstone Award recipients will be selected from the following list. Final results will be announced on April 17, as part of The Haiku Foundation’s celebration of International Haiku Poetry Day. Authors are presented in alphabetical order:
autumn sky
only one of us
deciduousMelissa Allen, Frogpond 37.1tendrils of crabgrass
in every direction
that one lieSusan Antolin, Mariposa 30the sky turns to snow
what to name
the heroineFrancine Banwarth, Modern Haiku 45.2forsythia
the widow’s blinds
part slightlyChuck Brickley, Mariposa 31sine wave
a purple finch
does the mathAlan S. Bridges, The Heron’s Nest XVII.4the long night . . .
an old woman’s loneliness
follows me homeKaren Cesar, Modern Haiku 45.3dandelion fluff —
the weight of his army
burial flagCezar-Florin Ciobîcă, cattails May 2014, UHTS Contestsnight time
in the hospice aquarium
the pulse of fish gillsJoyce Clement, The Heron’s Nest XVII.2suburban street . . .
side by side in a bookcase
the tight-shut talesJan Dobb, Kokako 21clapping erasers
all my wisdom
turned to dustGeorge G. Dorsty, bottle rockets 30empty park
two crows start
the world overRobert Epstein, Acorn 33global warming —
my cycles
closer togetherSeren Fargo, Modern Haiku 45.1gingko leaves
my father rotating his pen
over a legal padMichael Fessler, bottle rockets 30Perseids
counting
mosquitoesJeff Hoagland, tinywords 14.2his promised
return
paper airplaneYvette Kolodji, The Heron’s Nest XVII.2trailer park
never enough shade
for the chained dogsBurnell Lippy, The Heron’s Nest XVII.3a
copy
stored
in
the
cloud
torn
leafpaul m., Mariposa 31in and out
of the pumpkin’s smile
. . .a spiderCarole MacRury, Shiki Kukai, October 2014petition for divorce
the period
in every sentenceAnna Mazurkiewicz, Prune Juice 12“Do you want me?”
she whispers, and turns
to leavesDavid McCann, Acorn 32ice fishing
my father tries to catch
his breathJohn McManus, Mayfly 57old horses
days of endless rain
in their eyesRon C. Moss, The Heron’s Nest XVII.4afternoon rain
emptying a book
of its wordsPeter Newton, Frogpond 37.3if glass breaks easily a bird
John Stevenson, Frogpond 37.1whale song
I become
an empty boatMichelle Tennison, Acorn 32home from war
we ease out
the champagne corksLew Watts, The Heron’s Nest XVII.4sleep’s episiotomy you slip out
Peter Yovu, Frogpond 37.3birdsong broken into war bling
Peter Yovu, is/let December 1words furred over my awkward animal toward you now
Peter Yovu, NOON: journal of the short poem 8
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A strong field of poems! The judges have their hands full this year! This will not be easy.
Congrats to all!
Don
very nice indeed! To each of the poets: I love each of these poems!
Congratulations to all! A terrific crop of poems.
Great haiku!
-Patrick