How About A Haiku for National Poetry Month?

Today’s topic is all of the months within April.

April is National Library Month, National Community College Month and the calendar home to at least another dozen months, including National Poetry Month.

All of this suggests April is the perfect month for this spring’s NOVA Haiku contest.

The theme for this round of haiku is your choice: your poem can be about libraries or community colleges (or if you’re up for a challenge—both).

Remember that this poetic form has three lines: five syllables in the first line; seven syllables in the second line and five syllables in the third line.

As inspiration, I’ll share the winning poem from the New York Law Institute’s 2020 haiku contest for law librarians. Written by Jessica Field, the Library Information Systems Manager at Miller Johnson law firm, this haiku captures a common refrain from librarians in the internet age:

            It’s not all online.
            And even if it could be,
            It is not all free.

Please submit your haiku to PresidentsOffice@nvcc.edu by April 29. I look forward to receiving your poems and will draw three at random to receive prizes befitting the two themes.

All entries will be published in the Daily Flyer on May 3.