Brooks Books Haiku

The Virgil Hutton Memorial Chapbook Awards 1999-2000

Haiku collections by Del Doughty of Huntington, Indiana; Jim Kacian of Winchester, Virginia; Peggy Willis Lyles, Georgia; and Chris Pusateri of Mexico City, Mexico captured the four winning chapbooks in the Virgil Hutton Haiku Memorial Award Chapbook Contest for 1999-2000.

A celebration of haiku, as well as a fitting memorial tribute to the late haiku poet, Virgil Hutton, this contest is sponsored by the Hutton family and Saki Press, Normal, Illinois. This second annual haiku chapbook contest had entries from the US, Canada, Mexico, England, New Zealand, and Australia.

Each chapbook is available for $4.50 plus postage. Make your check out to "Lenore Hutton" in US funds. postage each = 55¢ USA · 75¢ Canada · $2.50 overseas

Saki Press
1021 West Gregory
Normal, IL 61761

http://www.geocities.com/sakipress/

doughDoughty is an assistant professor of English at Huntington College in Huntington, Indiana. This is a textured collection of haiku and senyru which explores the tension between convention and tradition on the one hand, and singularity and perception on the other.

              summer night—
        a carload of college girls
              timing the greenlights

"An image of the speed with which the 'prime of life' happens" --Del Doughty

               in concert
               the violin soloist
               and his shadows

"Written on the occasion in this format as a thank you for the many responsible…" —Jim Kacian

Lyles is a former college teacher and poetry editor of the Georgia Journal. This collection provides an inventive utilization of kasen renku conventions in arranging a selection of her favorite haiku--each one celebrating a moment of genuine experience and resonating from its particular emotional tone.

               antique globe
               the names of places
               worn away

" . . . recognizing contemporary haiku as a global literature--democratic, inclusive, richly varied, and capable of nurturing great poets for the 21st century.."—Peggy W. Lyles

               seven to a room—
               three in bed, four on the floor—
               a chorus of crickets

"No matter where we are, our sense of home follows us--we carry it with us everywhere we go."—Chris Pusateri

A new compilation of 50 haiku and senyru by the late haiku poet, Virgil Hutton gathered from his private files and journal notes, the collection presents some of his personal favorites plus a few works in progress.

               Tractor
               harvesting the wheat field—
               trail of golden dust

"The two basics that I strive for in haiku writing are simplicity and profundity … One's poems ideally should leave one with a sense of yet undiscovered meanings and nuances." —Virgil Hutton

The Third Annual Virgil Hutton Haiku Memorial Award Chapbook Contest

The Hutton Family (Lenore Hutton, William H. Hutton, Naurine Ligler Hutton) and Saki Press are sponsoring The Second Annual Virgil Hutton Haiku Memorial Award Chapbook Contest for the four best collections of more traditional haiku (as defined by the HSA). Limit of 50 haiku per entry, and all chapbooks must be titled with haiku appearing in the order the poet prefers. You may submit more than one entry, but each entry must be accompanied by the entry fee.

PRIZES: Chapbook publication of the four winning entries. (There may be a cash award in addition to chapbook publication for a Grand Prize winner with the additional 3 First Prize winners being published as Saki Press chapbooks.)

ENTRY FEE: $26.OO US funds with a S.A.S.E. for results notification. No entries will be returned, so clean photocopies are preferred along with any artwork or graphics. The four winners will receive 25 copies of their published winning entry chapbook and e-mail press releases to the media or organizations of their choice announcing their award. All winning entries will have an ISBN number from Saki Press, thus allowing the chapbooks to be listed in Books In Print.

CONTEST TIMEFRAME: The contest opens September 15, 2000, and submissions must be received by December 31, 2000. Winners will be announced in February 2001 and publication will be in March 2001 by Saki Press, (Normal, Illinois). Send haiku a collection of up to 50 haiku and entry fee of $26.00 U.S. funds along with a S.A.S.E. to: Saki Press, 1021 West Gregory, Normal, IL 61761. For more information see the SP website. http://www.geocities.com/sakipress/