Winning entries from the 1999 Jack Stamm competition

The paper wasp Jack Stamm haiku contest honours the memory of the American haiku poet Jack Stamm, a long term resident of Japan, judge of the Japan Air Lines World Children's Haiku Contest, and a founding member of paper wasp.

Congratulations to all entrants - the quality of work submitted was high, and the judges had to exercise all their experience and skill to sort and select the best of the best.

 

First prize - $A150.00 and three original pen and ink drawings by Australian indigenous artist Kimba Fataiki

noon light
the stillness of fish
in a heron's eye

Sandra Fuhringer

 

Second Prize - $A75.00 and one drawing by Kimba Fataiki

 

convalescing ...
the window takes 2 1/4 hours
to cross the carpet

Ernest J. Berry

 

Third Prize - $A25.00 and one drawing by Kimba Fataiki


closing down sale
caught by moonlight
the naked dummy

Carla Sari

Commended:


Ernest J Berry
Catherine Mair
John Stevenson
Alan J Summers
Thom Williams
Sue Wilson