Many thanks to everyone who made this year's Haiku Newton project a wonderful success.
The celebratory reading on June 9 was a high point of the season. 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 signs were displayed at the Library for several weeks. Half of the signs were then moved to the Boys and Girls Club, 675 Watertown Street. The others were installed at First Baptist Church in Newton Centre, 848 Beacon Street.
In late July, half of the signs were installed in front of Little Luke's Cafe, 1225 Chestnut Street, Newton Upper Falls, If you can't see the signs in person, you'll can see the poems on this website (see below).
Many thanks to everyone who made this year's project so special.