A JOYFUL, INSPIRING EVENT

Many thanks to everyone who attended our celebratory reading on June 9 at the Newton Free Library. Co-directors Grey Held and Elizabeth Lund were delighted to welcome more than 60 attendees.

The event featured a reading of all the 2025 winning poems. As Grey Held explained to the audience, Haiku Newton usually selects and displays 20 poems each year. The submissions this spring were so strong, however, that 30 haiku were selected.

Fifteen winners attended the event and read their work to the enthusiastic audience. Among the readers were two student poets and the grandmother of another student writer. Grey read the poems of those who could not attend because of distance or previous commitments. As Elizabeth noted, some of this year's winners live in Italy, Poland, and India.

The installation is no longer on display at the Library. Half the signs have been moved to   the Boys and Girls Club, 675 Watertown Street. In the next few days, the other signs will be installed at First Baptist Church in Newton Centre, 848 Beacon Street.

If you can't see the signs in person, you'll be able to see the poems on this website. Check back next week for the first set of images and author bios.

Many thanks to everyone who made this year's project so special.