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| News: | 11 Nov. 2025 |
Compiled by Clare MacQueen
Nominations for 2025 Touchstone Awards
for Individual Poems
“The Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems are bestowed annually by The Haiku Foundation on poems that represent noteworthy additions to English-language haiku and senryu in the estimation of a distinguished panel. The Awards are open to any English-language haiku or senryu first published in the current calendar year.
“...Results are determined through a year-long nomination and selection process and are released the following year on April 17, International Haiku Poetry Day. Award recipients are selected by independent panels comprised of authorities in the field.”
For details about the selection process and the panelists, see:
Touchstone Award for Individual Poems
With gratitude to the following poets for publishing with MacQueen’s Quinterly, I’m pleased to announce my nominations for the 2025 Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems:
1. Deborah A. Bennett: two of her haiku from Issue 26:
into the light
of fireflies
the tails of her fish kite
spring desolation
the child’s fish kite
at the bottom of the lake
2. Melissa Dennison: two of her poems from Issue 28:
chopping onions
she sheds a tear
the lady of shallots
in my pocket
a pebble ...
the weight of history
3A. Peter Jastermsky: one of his “ransom notes” (experimental senryu) from Issue 26:
cav IT y s e a r c h f nDng there S Not h Ng m s s n g
3B. Peter Jastermsky: another of his “ransom notes” from Issue 26:
uncommon kNOWledge feed ing our child ren an END less WAR the shape of our coun TRY
4. Gary S. Rosin: his ekphrastic haiku from Issue 26:
the Beaver Moon
outshines Nubble Light
a shoal of clouds
5. Ron Scully: one of his senryu from Issue 29:
ghost bike
at the intersection
sirens whir
6. Thomas Smith: one of his haiku from Issue 30:
wrens reconsidered
the plum tree blossoms
welcome us home
Best of luck to these nominees!
Links to MacQ’s nominations for The Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems in previous years:
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