- Please nominate no more than two (2) poems for the Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems.
- Only one (1) nomination may be for your own work. The second must be for a fellow poet (leave #2 blank if you don't wish to nominate a second poem). Alternatively, you may nominate two poems by other poets.
- Nominated poems must have been published in the current calendar year in a juried public venue such as a book, journal, online site, or contest; they may not have been previously published in any other year.
- Self-published haiku and haiku published on self-edited blogs are not eligible.
- Poems for nomination must be submitted via this form with citations as indicated.
- The deadline for submissions is midnight of December 31 of the current calendar year.
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Thanks for participating!
- Cut/paste or type the poems. Paste the poem in the applicable space and the form will hold any spacing and line breaks. If typing the poem, simply press "enter" at the end of each line of each poem. You may note any special formatting in parenthesis, if applicable. The form will hold formatting for extra spaces but not things like italics, bold, strikethrough, etc. If a poem is concrete and requires a pdf, please fill out the form and put "concrete" in the poem space and then email the pdf to thftouchstone@gmail.com.
Examples:
In Kyoto, (press enter)
hearing the cuckoo, (press enter)
I long for Kyoto.
spring rain
if i lie
quite still
he leans on the gate going staying
