The Ohio Department of Natural Resources and Ohio State Parks in conjunction with the Findlay-Hancock County Community Foundation, is sponsoring the permanent installation of a haiku trail at Van Buren State Park in Van Buren, Ohio! Selected poems will be installed along this trail. Submissions are open to anyone and we invite both published and unpublished haiku, however all submissions must be the original work of the entrant. The trail will be located in a blue bird grove – the inclusion of aviary references in the haiku is welcomed! Submissions may conform to the traditional 5-7-5 syllable pattern, but 3-lined free-form haiku are equally welcome.

All haiku must be submitted online here: bit.ly/3U9d6NE, Entries accepted from April 10 until May 17

Contest winners will be announced at the end of May/early June.