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As
a memorial to Editor Bob Spiess, who died on March 13, 2002, Modern
Haiku sponsors The Robert
Spiess Memorial Award Haiku Competition.
Speculation theme for 2008: Haiku are to be written in the spirit of the following "Speculation" (Robert Spiess, A Year’s Speculations on Haiku, Modern Haiku Press, 1995):
A haiku is a profound testimony that a most humble object of nature when put into the simplest of aesthetic forms can become a revelation.
see the 2008 Spiess Contest Competition Guidelines
Deadline: March 13, 2008
Speculation theme for 2007: Haiku are to be written in the spirit of the following "Speculation" (Robert Spiess, A Year’s Speculations on Haiku, Modern Haiku Press, 1995):
If a haiku is to have life it must have rhythm or flow— for whatever life is, there is rhythm. Needless to say, this rhythm will seldom be a regular meter, but will be a rhythm or flow that is natural to the entities of the haiku and their particular relation. When the rhythm is proper to the haiku it simply will be felt in an aesthetic mode of "rightness."
see the 2007 Spiess Contest Awards
Speculation theme for 2006: Haiku are to be written in the spirit of the following “Speculation” (Robert Spiess, A Year’s Speculations on Haiku, Modern Haiku Press, 1995):
Juxtaposition of entities in haiku cannot be simply the throwing together of just anything; the poet must have the intuition that certain things, albeit of “opposite” characteristics, nonetheless have a resonance with each other that will evoke a revelation when they are juxtaposed in accordance with the time-tested canons and aesthetics of haiku.
see the 2006
Spiess Awards
Speculation Theme for 2005: Haiku are to be written in the spirit of the following "Speculation" (Robert Spiess, A Year’s Speculations on Haiku, Modern Haiku Press, 1995):
It is [the] subjective aspect that accounts for very much of the difference between a haiku that is merely descriptive per se and one that engenders intuitional feeling—and this is the deciding factor between a haiku in which the poet simply records stimuli and one in which the poet is in accord with the haiku moment.
see
the 2005 Spiess Awards
Speculation
Theme for 2004: Haiku were written in the spirit of the following "Speculation" (Robert Spiess, A Year’s Speculations
on Haiku, Modern Haiku (1995):(Robert Spiess, A Year’s
Speculations on Haiku, Modern
Haiku Press, 1995):
True
haiku poets do not write to demonstrate how different their
haiku are from those of other haiku poets. Goethe wrote, "I
have reaped the harvest that others have sown. My work is that
of a collective being and it bears Goethe’s name."
see
the 2004 Spiess Awards
Speculation
Theme for 2003: Haiku written in the spirit of the following "Speculation" (Robert Spiess, A Year’s Speculations on Haiku, Modern
Haiku (1995):
Most
haiku of excellence are serenely vibrant. Although they seldom
are concerned with grand or marvelous events, or employ highly
charged language, or possess startling qualities, they nonetheless
are intensely alive in their quiet and deep evocation of aspects
of life and the world, aspects that can easily be overlooked.
In and through these haiku we are able to live more fully and
with a non-exclusiveness that lets us participate in and appreciate
multitudinous event-experiences.
see
the 2003 Spiess Awards
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