First Place in the 2024 Robert Spiess Memorial Haiku Award!

Results from the 2024 Robert Spiess Memorial Haiku Award have been announced. Congratulations to the following poets:

First Place

Mercury retrograde —

the old clock

tock-tick

Johnette Downing

Second Place

y axis to x axis all day snow

Brad Bennett

Third Place

in remission

f

i r e

f l

i e

s

Frank Hooven

Honorable Mention (ranked)

sundial

a ladybug rests

at noon

William Cullen Jr.

the silence

after the read receipt …

young stars

Aidan Castle

perhaps one day I'll be a real boy …

yellow oak

Joshua St. Claire

middle age

the invisible wings

of a hummingbird

Sasha A. Palmer

his face

on the ultrasound …

throb of fireflies

Aidan Castle

Results including the judge’s commentary will appear in the summer issue of Modern Haiku (to be mailed soon) and online at our website shortly.

Thank you to this year’s judge, Sandra Simpson, and to everyone who participated!