ukiahaiku Festival

A celebration and competition devoted to the haiku form of poetry

Sunday, April 29, 2012

Performance by Yokayo Taiko, beginning at 1:30. Winning authors read their
poems at 2:00. Reception and Refreshments at 3:00.

SPACE Theater
508 West Perkins at Bush Street
Ukiah, California

2012 Winning Haiku booklet will be sold at the event. All sales help support the ukiaHaiku Festival.

As of the 2010 festival, we have added a new category for haiku in Spanish: Sumisiones Regionales de Haiku en Español. 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.

The 10th Annual ukiaHaiku Festival sponsors for 2012 include Susan Sparrow & Hal Zinna Bennett, Write From the Heart; OcoTime Peace Café, Ukiah; Savings Bank of Mendocino County; Mendocino Book Company, Ukiah;Mulligan’s Books, Ukiah; Mendocino Baby, Ukiah; Yokayo Taiko, Ukiah; UFO(Ukiah Folding Organization); Ukiah Natural Foods; Mendocino Bounty, Ukiah; Schats Bakery, Ukiah and Arts Council of Mendocino.

The 10^th annual ukiaHaiku Festival is produced by the ukiaHaiku Festival Committee, the Grace Hudson Museum and Sun House, the Ukiah Poet Laureate Committee, the Mendocino County Library, the City of Ukiah, Jane Reichhold & AHA Poetry, with special thanks to Kristin Marrow and Sarah Falk.