As a memorial to Editor Bob Spiess, who died on March 13, 2002,
Modern Haiku sponsors The Robert Spiess Memorial Award
Haiku Competition.
We are honored and grateful to Modern Haiku for the opportunity to judge this year’s Robert Spiess Memorial Haiku Award Competition. The theme was to write haiku in the spirit of the following Speculation by Robert Spiess from his book, A Year’s Speculations on Haiku (Modern Haiku Press, 1995):
Another of the marvelous paradoxes of haiku is that the better they express the suchness of entities the better they intimate the essential mystery of these things.
Eve Luckring and Lew Watts, judges
Billie Wilson, contest coordinator
First Prize: Ernest J. Berry
midsummer
under a leaf
hidden from
Two other haiku seemed to be of equal merit to us, hence our decision to award equal second places.
(Equal) Second Prize: Margaret Dornaus
alphabet soup
I practice cradling love
in a stainless spoon
(Equal) Second Prize: Scott Mason
sautéed fiddleheads
dinner begins
with grace
Honorable Mentions
overnight the spider's mathematics
John Barlow
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nightfall
no decision
required
Julie Warther
For this year’s Robert Spiess Memorial Haiku Award Competition, there were 256 entries from 66 poets in 8 countries.
Eve Luckring and Lew Watts, judges
Billie Wilson, contest coordinator
2013