Seabeck Haiku Getaway 2024 Kukai Winners

Congratulations to the following winners of the 2024 Seabeck Haiku Getaway kukai (our friendly annual haiku contest), selected from 91 submissions. The following poets placed in the top six places, based on total vote count, voted on anonymously, and these poems will be published in our 2024 Seabeck anthology. Where poems tied, they are listed in alphabetical order by the poet’s last name.

First Place (tie)

longest night

poking at what’s left

of the log

P. H. Fischer

Tokyo alley

I run into

the moon from home

Annette Makino

stone steps

worn to a curve

crescent moon

Michael Dylan Welch

Second Place

sleeping volcano—

an irruption

of butterflies

Sheila Sondik

Third Place

a slave following

the river’s sound

crescent moon

Jacob A. Salzer

Fourth Place (tie)

the sky fills

with puzzle pieces . . .

snow geese

Alan S. Bridges

missing

from this map of the world

—fault lines

Carole MacRury

Fifth Place (tie)

we lose the trail—

wildflowers

on a steep slope

J.B.

haiku journals

sometimes I just

read the names

John Stevenson

sunset heron

eventide tucked

under his wing

David Watts

Sixth Place (tie)

my train of thought an atmospheric river

Alan S. Bridges

news of her passing

a maple leaf f l o a t s

across the footbridge

Annette Makino