THE TENTH ANNUAL
ukiaHaiku festival 2012

A celebration and competition devoted to the haiku form of poetry

Sunday, May 6, 2012

2 pm to 4 pm: Celebration & Awards Ceremony

SPACE Theater
508 West Perkins at Bush Street
Ukiah, California

Music Program: Ukiah Taiko, Shakuhachi Flute Performance with Masayuki Koga and students of the Japanese Music Institute, Berkeley

Winning authors read their work

PDF Booklet of Winning Haiku 2011


As of the 2010 festival, we have added a new category for haiku in Spanish: Sumisiones Regionales de Haiku en Espaņol. Note that we have a regional focus for all categories except one, the Jane Reichhold International Prize, which is open to adults planet-wide. All other categories are open to residents of Mendocino, Humboldt, Lake, and Sonoma counties in Northern California. For more specifics, please see our Submission Guidelines.

Read the winning haiku of past festivals 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011.

ukiaHaiku festival sponsorship for 2010 included a grant from the Measure X Transient Occupancy Tax Funds, City of Ukiah; along with: Susan Sparrow of Tenacity Press; Haiku Vineyards; OCO Time; Mendocino Book Company; Mulligan Books; Leaves of Grass Bookstore; Taka Japanese Grill; Copperfield’s Books, Healdsburg; CGC Website Designs; Yokayo Taiko; and Louise Yale & Rachael Smith-Ferri of Ukiah Folding Organization

The 9th Annual festival is produced by the Poet Laureate Committee of Ukiah, Grace Hudson Museum, City of Ukiah, Mendocino County Library, Ukiah High School, Writers Read, Colored Horse Studios, and Jane Reichhold & AHA Poetry, with special thanks to Kristen Marrow

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