Our last five haiku contests revealed the creative genius of dozens of Harvard poets. If you’ve been waiting for an opportunity to strut your creative stuff, now’s your chance: Our sixth annual Haiku Contest is on! Haikus will be published in our June 1 issue. You can enter now and avoid the rush, or wait ’til the deadline, which is Monday, May 28.

Entries should be written with a Harvard theme. The possibilities are endless: town politics, apples, Town Meeting, town events, Bromfield and HES activities, town personalities—you name it.

Classic haiku format is 17 syllables in a five-seven-five pattern:

Find five syllables
with seven to follow them
and five to finish

First prize is a one-year subscription or renewal to the Harvard Press. Selected entries will be published and the winner announced in the June 1 issue. To enter, e-mail submissions to editor@harvardpress.com or mail to The Harvard Press, P.O. Box 284, Harvard, MA 01451.

First Place – 2011

Hand-pressed by "our" Phil,
tumbled apples soon become
Harvard in a jug.

—Jeff Levering, Finn Road

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First Place – 2010

yesterday a child
today, raving lunatic
atrocious hormones

—Ames Hardymon, Old Boston Turnpike

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First Place – 2009

A sudden sharp blare
blasts the pre-dawn calm. Crisis?
No. Connect-Ed call.

—Didi Chadran, Stow Road

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First Place – 2008

Pond opens, arms wide
splashing, laughing, back to life
Second raft beckons

—Jake Kline, Park Lane

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First Place – 2007

Twirling up the hills,
Parasols of pink and white:
Apple blossom dance

—Carlene Phillips, Oak Hill Road

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