Asian Heritage Month – Can You Haiku? Contest

April is Asian Heritage Month at BMCC

Come, celebrate with the Library (in S410) BMCC’s 27thAnnual Asian Heritage Month!

Enter the BMCC Library’s 10th Annual Can You Haiku? Contest
Chance to win a $25 Barnes & Noble gift card!

The Can You Haiku? Contest runs April 1-28, 2015

To enter the contest:

Look for the big RED box as you enter the BMCC Library (S410) & fill out the official contest form.
Also, enter online on the BMCC Library’s homepage!
Every Haiku poem entered MUST invoke anything to do with food (such as preparing it, shopping for it, eating it, etc.)
Winners will be announced on April 28, 2015

How to write a Haiku Poem
3 lines of poetry, 17 syllables altogether:
1st line has 5 syllables,
2nd line has 7 syllables,
3rd line has 5 syllables

RULES:

• Contest is open to all:BMCC students, faculty, staff, & administration.
• Every Haiku entry MUST invoke anything to do with food (such as preparing it, shopping for it, eating it, etc.)
• To win, poem must conform to the Haiku format of 5-7-5 syllables.
• All Haiku poems must be original.
• You may enter as many DIFFERENT Haiku poems as you wish.
• All entries (handwritten & online) must be received by noon-28 Apr ’15.

Haiku Example
from a Master
Kijo Murakami (1865-1938)

(5) First autumn morning:
(7) the mirror I stare into
(5) shows my father’s face.

Click here to ENTER online!

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