Indecent Haiku

Announcements

• We’ve added a new option to each haiku: swag.  Get your favorite haiku printed on a mug, mousepad, or t-shirt.  Proceeds go to kittens and orphans*

  We’ll be working to get some more products and additional designs up in the coming weeks.  In the meantime, a custom haiku mug or mousepad is the best way to show off your deeply twisted sensibilities to anybody unfortunate enough to enter your house.

  *this is untrue.

• We’re working on a number of new features for Indecent Haiku.  One of them is an e-card section of the site, which will allow you to send anonymous haiku e-cards to anyone you like.  Which means we need special submissions for this section.  

  What we need is topical haiku.  They can be event haiku, like birthdays and the like, but we’re particularly interested in bad news haiku.  For instance:

  two roads diverge, each
  filled with potential!  let us
  see other people.

  or

  our love may have passed
  but it leaves a remembrance:
  i gave you herpes.

  Submit your haiku through the usual methods, and we’ll go through all our submissions for appropriate e-card poems.

• You may have noticed a new category entitled “For Publication.”  We’re compiling our first set of haiku for publication in book form, and this category is our internal way of identifying potential candidates for the book.  The current plan is to select 50 haiku for publication.

  Note that this category is a work in progress, and we will be adding to and removing from it daily.  If your haiku is not listed in this category, it might be eventually, and if it is listed, it may still be taken off.  We have several haiku still in our release queue and we’ll be going through those as well, so if you’ve been saving up a particularly good haiku (and one that meets the specifications below) now would be a good time to submit it.

  Please understand that we’re huge fans of all the haiku that come through our site, and that selection for publication is not simply a matter of which we like best.  There are a few criteria beyond quality/humor for publication:

  1. Haiku will be published without titles, so the haiku must make sense even without a title to give it context.
  2. Published haiku must follow our style guide strictly (not just the 5-7-5 part)
  3. Haiku should not reference transient pop culture references or internet memes; we want this book to be relevant (hee hee) long after the publish date.
  4. We prefer haiku published under valid email addresses by people who respond to their email; we want nicknames to credit.

  Once we’ve narrowed our selections down to our final list, we’ll begin contacting the selected authors by emailfor publication credit details.