Tap into your inner poet for Tucson’s second annual Haiku Hike literary competition.
The contest is a chance to have your haiku poem on display around Downtown Tucson, printed on acrylic signage.
A haiku is a Japanese poem of 17 syllables in three lines of five, seven and five.
Twenty haikus based on the theme “living in the present moment” will be selected for display on Congress Street and Stone Avenue by Tucson’s Poet Laureate, TC Tolbert.
Submissions will be accepted through March 10. For more information or to enter, go to downtowntucson.org/haikuhike.
Last year’s contest, with the theme “life in the city,” brought in nearly 1,000 submissions.
The event is put on by the Downtown Tucson Partnership with the University of Arizona Poetry Center.
