Kathryn Mockler's "Haiku Sucks" | Issue 25
The Great Canadian Haiku Controversy: In 1997, I won a poetry contest and the magazine's readership was not happy. I felt I was undeserving of the honour, and, as it turned out, so did everyone else!
In 1997, early in my writing life, when I had a couple of small literary publications under my belt and was an MFA student at UBC, I won Geist Magazine’s Great Canadian Haiku Contest, which was judged by poet David McFadden.
Much to my surprise, I won.
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