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I was delighted to hear that I had won this competition as place names hold such potency in poetry, and in particular, haiku.
The winning haiku by me was about Battersea Power Station: http://www.wmf.org/get-involved/haiku-contest-winners
the moon is broken
Battersea Power Station
from a train window
Award credit: 1st Prize, World Monuments Fund 2012 Haiku Contest winner
Also published in:
Article:
The Moon is Broken: Juxtaposition in haiku article Scope vol. 60 no. 3 (FAWQ magazine April 2014)
Publication Credit:
THF Per Diem collection “Light and Dark” December 2014
N.B. Also the haiku is in a pattern of 5-7-5 English-language syllables.
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Results of the names of the winners are now up, and the haiku will go up alongside images and biographies in early May:
http://www.wmf.org/get-involved/haiku-contest
Awards
First Prize, $100; Second Prize, $75; Third Prize, $50, and three
semi-finalists. All six winning haiku to be published on the World
Monuments Fund web site.
Winners
First Prize: Alan SummersSecond Prize: Mark Ynys-Mon
Third Prize: Elizabeth Brewster Thomas
Semifinalists:
Jennifer Burd
John Tiong ChungHoo
Janet Kirchheimer
Adjudication
Annie Finch has published numerous books of poetry, including Calendars (Tupelo Press, 2003, The Encyclopedia of Scotland (Salt Publishing, 2008), Among the Goddesses (Red Hen Press, 2010), Eve (Storyline Press, 1997), and Spells: Selected Poetry, forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press. Her poetic collaborations with music, visual art, opera, and theater have been produced at Poets House, Chicago Art Institute, Carnegie Hall, American Opera Projects, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Finch’s books about poetry include The Body of Poetry (University of Michigan Press, 2005), A Formal Feeling Comes (New Edition, Word Tech Editions, 2008), An Exaltation of Forms (University of Michigan Press, 2002), and, most recently, co-edited with Marie-Elizabeth Mali, Villanelles (Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets, 2012), as well as the poetry-writing textbook, A Poet’s Craft (University of Michigan Press, 2010). She is Director of the Stonecoast MFA program at the University of Southern Maine.In an interview in FULCRUM Magazine, Finch notes: “Like architecture, poetry is an art that creates habitable structures within uninhabitable expanses through the use of repetition, proportion, and pattern. The poet, like the architect, is joyfully and painfully aware of both the provisional nature, and the complete necessity, of such habitable structures." Read her poem "On Poetry and Architecture".
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