The Syracuse Poster Project invites poets to participate in its annual series of poetry posters.

If you’ve submitted poetry before, consider contributing more, honing earlier submissions, or sharing this invitation with a friend. If you’re new to the project, think of it as a chance to share your creative talents.

Each year, over the summer, we reach out to poets for haiku poems about downtown Syracuse, the city at large, or the nearby countryside.

The 2012 series, which comes out in April, will consist of 15 posters created the traditional way (poem first, image second) and one created the reverse way (image first, poem second). The latter will be a special poster commemorating the 50th anniversary of Onondaga Community College.

Our next call for haiku will serve the 2013 series. Go to “Entry Materials” for entry forms and more information. Or you can request entry materials through the Contact Us function.

The annual deadline for submissions is the second Friday in September. We notify poets of selection in December.
As the seasons unfold, apply yourself to experiencing the pleasures, beauties and peculiarities of our city. How do these moments move you? How do you convey the depth of these experiences in the few words of haiku? Delve into this, and send us your best work.

Thank you.

Haiku Resources:

Haiku Society of America
A not-for-profit organization founded in 1968 to promote writing and appreciation of haiku in English. The website offers a trove of resources for haiku enthusiasts of all stripes. Consider the seven annual haiku contests; collections of haiku resulting from the contests; judges' commentary; and the society's tri-annual journal, Frog Pond, with essays (How to Avoid Cliche, for instance), book reviews, and forays into related forms, including haibun, rengay, rengu, tan renga, and senryu. Don't hold back!