2025 ONE ART Haiku Anthology (Online Issue)
How to Submit: Please email up to five haiku/senyru in the body of an email to:
onearthaiku2025@gmail.com and include a brief bio for use if accepted for curation.
Submission Window: March 1st-31st, 2025
Curation Decision From Katie Dozier by: April 7th, 2025
Anthology Publication Date: April 17th, 2024, National Haiku Day
Requirements: Previously uncurated, though sharing on personal sites (including social media) is great! Simultaneous submissions are also good; just please reply to your own emailed submission to let me know if it was accepted elsewhere.
What I’m Looking For: Despite what so many of us were taught in school, a three-line poem composed of five, then seven, then five syllables is not an accurate nor a complete definition of the art form of haiku. (For more on why, please read this article by Michael Dylan Welch.) Haiku cannot be distilled to being a short poem of a designated number of syllables; contemporary English haiku are constantly evolving and stretching the bounds of how much poem can be packed into a tiny package.
So what are haiku? As he outlined on our episode of The Poetry Space_, Timothy Green defines haiku as “two worlds in one breath,” which I haven’t been able to improve upon! Excellent haiku hinge upon the juxtaposition between two entities in an astonishingly quick amount of time—without the need to arbitrarily count syllables. The best haiku enable you to see both of the two worlds with a deeper understanding.
With that in mind, please do not submit 5-7-5 haiku that lack the juxtaposition at the heart of what makes haiku beat. Modern Haiku, Frogpond, and Rattle are excellent sources for what constitutes the fascinating scope of contemporary English haiku; and they are a great representation of the kind of poems I am excited to curate for ONE ART’s 2025 Haiku Anthology.
For examples of haiku that will be a good fit, check out ONE ART’s 2024 Haiku Anthology.
I can’t wait to read your haiku and, in the meantime, find me over on X (aka. Twitter).
Best of Luck,
Katie Dozier
Haiku Editor
