ONE ART’s 2026 Haiku Anthology

Submission Window: February 15 - March 15

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Please submit up to four haiku/senryu

Curation Decision From Katie Dozier by: April 7

Anthology Publication Date: April 17 (International Haiku Day)

Requirements: Previously uncurated, though sharing on personal sites (including social media) is great! Simultaneous submissions are allowed; just please add a note in the Subfolio submission manager to inform if work is 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 definition for haiku. (For more on why, please read this article by Michael Dylan Welch.) A haiku IS NOT defined as a micro poem with 17 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 at least 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 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 curate for ONE ART’s anthologies.

I can’t wait to read your haiku and in the meantime, find me over on Facebook and Substack.

Best of Luck,

Katie Dozier

Haiku Editor, ONE ART

Author of All That Glitter