Results of the World Haiku Series 2022
Hiruta Haiku, Haiku toward
UNESCO, World Haiku
Series 2022/12/19
It is my great delight and honor that I announce the results
of the World Haiku Series 2022.
Thanks
to the enthusiasm and support of haiku poets and haiku lovers around the world,
we had congratulatory poems submitted in both Japanese and English.
We
also had 130 submissions sent in Japanese, English, Russian, and Chinese.
Each
writer’s haiku appear twice on the website.
First
of all, the haiku are posted as they were.
Two
days later, some comments appear along with Japanese translations of some
haiku.
Congratulatory
Haiku (3)
To
our great delight, we had 27 congratulatory haiku presented from 5-year-old
children at Aishin Preschool and Yotsuba Preschool in Shirataka Town, Yamagata
Prefecture, Japan.
Furthermore,
we had 7 congratulatory haiku and 3 congratulatory haiga presented by Zoe
Grant, an 8-year-old haiku poet in New Zealand.
We
also had 5 congratulatory haiku and 10 congratulatory chopstick paintings
presented by Aino Shinyō, a KOTODAMA poetry artist in Akita
City, Akita Prefecture, Japan.
Submissions
(130)
We
express our sincere gratitude to the authors who kindly and delightedly sent
their fine works of haiku, photo haiku, or haiga, and photos.
We
share their excellent works with our friends all over the world on the website.
We
give a presentation of haiku by each poet and also introduce remarks.
We
sincerely hope that their works of haiku are deeply, highly, and thoroughly
appreciated through the presentation and the comments of haiku.
We
also hope that haiku impress you and linger in your hearts.
Authors
(130)
Adjei
Agyei-Baah, Alan Summers, Alenka Zorman, Alessandra Delle Fratte, Alex Malley,
Aljoša
Vuković, Anita Bacha, Anna Kasenkova, Arvinder kaur, Ashok K. Bhargava,
Barbara
Anna Gaiardoni, Barbara Olmtak, Ben Grafström, Bina Sarkar Ellias,
Carmela
Marino, Charlotte Digregorio, Chen Xiaoou, Christina Chin,
Christiane
Ranieri, Corine Timmer,
Daniela
Misso, Danijela Grbelja, David McMurray, Debbie Strange,
Dmitry
Shestakovsky, Doreia Ragheb Yaseen, Dragan J. Ristić, Dubravko Korbus,
Djurdja
Vukelić Rožić,
Ed
Bremson, Elena Asch, Eufemia Griffo,
Florin
Golban, Franjo Ordanić, Frank J. Tassone,
Galimzyanov
Ayrat, Geethanjali Rajan, GILLENA COX, Giuliana Ravaglia,
Gordana
Vlašić, Goutam Dutta,
Harvey
Jenkins, Helen Buckingham, Henryk Czempiel, Hidenori Hiruta, Hifsa Ashraf,
Isabella
Kramer,
Jessica
Allyson, Jim Force, Jim Kacian, Jorge Alberto Giallorenzi, Julia Guzmán,
Kala
Ramesh, Karen O’Leary, Kimberly Olmtak Gomes, Koroleva Natalia,
Lakshmi
Iyer, Lan Diep, Lavana Kray, Li Xiao, Liudmila Skrebneva, Ljiljana Dobra,
Lisa
Fox, Lorelyn De la Cruz Arevalo, Lucia Cardillo, Luciana Moretto, Luminita
Suse,
Manoj
Sharma, Margherita Petriccione, Marina Cheremisova, Maria Concetta Conti,
Maria
Teresa Piras, Marilyn Humbert, Mark Miller, Marta Chocilowska,
Michael
O’Brien, Mihovila Čeperić-Biljan, Mike Gallagher, Milan Rajkumar,
Milan
Rupčić, Mircea Moldovan, Mirela Brăilean, Mona Bedi, Mona Iordan,
Nadejda
Kostadinova, Nadezhda Bezmenova, Nani Mariani, Natalia Kuznetsova,
Neena
Singh, Nina Kovačić,
Philomene
Kocher, Polina Pecherskaya, Pravat Kumar Padhy, Priscilla Lignori,
Ram
Chandran, Ram Krishna Singh, Ravi Kiran, Refika Dedić, Reshida Coba,
Richa
Sharma, Rika Inami, Rina Albert, Roberta Beach Jacobson, R. Suresh babu,
Sally
Quon, Samo Kreutz, Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta, Sanjuktaa Asopa, Shanmao,
Silva
Trstenjak, Sherry Grant, Srinivasa Rao Sambangi, Susan Bonk Plumridge,
Susan
Spooner, Štefanija Ludvig,
Teji
Sethi, Tsugoshi Toshiaki,
Vandana
Parashar, Vida jalili, Vilma Knežević, Vishnu Kapoor, Vitaly Svirin,
Vladimir
Ludvig, Vladislav Hristov,
Xenia
Tran,
Yuko
Hirota,
Zana Coven, Zdenka
Mlinar, Željko Funda, Zhelyko Funda
Submissions
were sent from the following 36 countries:
Albania
(1), Argentina (2), Australia (4), Belarus (1), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1),
Bulgaria (2), Canada (12), China (1), Croatia (18), England (2), France (1),
Germany (1), Ghana (1), India (21), Iran (1), Ireland (1), Italy (12), Japan
(4), Malaysia (1), Nepal (1), Netherlands (1), New Zealand (1), Pakistan (1),
Philippines (1), Poland (2), Portugal (1), Romania (5), Russia (11), Scotland
(1), Serbia (1), Slovenia (2), Suriname (1), Syria (1), Trinidad and Tobago
(1), Ukraine (2), USA (10)
Presentations (December 24,
2022 – February 10, 2024)
Hidenori
Hiruta
Chief
Director
The Akita International Haiku Network
