Win A $25 Gift Card

Prizes: $25 Barnes & Noble Gift Card AND a FREE dinner at BMCC's 21st Annual Asian Heritage Month Dinner on April 24, 2009.

Contest runs from March 23 - April 21, 2009. Winner(s) announced April 22, 2009.

What is Haiku?
Haiku is a traditional form of Japanese poetry.

A Haiku poem has 3 lines of 17 syllables-consisting of 5, 7, & 5 syllables, respectively. (The rules for writing Haiku in Japanese are strict, but in other languages it is simpler.)

Example from a Haiku Master,
Kijo Murakami (1865-1938)

(5) First autumn morning:
(7) the mirror I stare into
(5) shows my father's face.

Now, try it for yourself! You may submit up to 4 poems online:

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Poem 1: (5) (7) (5)	Poem 2: (5) (7) (5)
Poem 3: (5) (7) (5)	Poem 4: (5) (7) (5)

The Can You Haiku? Contest is sponsored by the BMCC Asian Heritage Committee and is coordinated by Professor Dorothea Coiffe of the BMCC Library. The judges of the 4th annual Can You Haiku? Contest are Professors Dorothea Coiffe and Linda Wadas.