Haiku Fest awarded certificates to all participating student poets. Thanks to over 2,000 poets, parents and teachers for making Haiku Fest successful. Winning entries are listed below.
First Prize: $100
Birds go out shopping
They go to the garden store
Buy frozen worm soup
Adaeze Uduko, Age 9, Grade 4
Passages Charter School, Chicago
Second Prize: $50
The rose is like fire
Beautiful as a diamond
Elegant as blood
Santos Baez, Age 10, Grade 4
Sacred Heart – 96th Street, Chicago
Third Prize: $20
A dream running through
A sea of vibrant colors
Lying on the ground
David D. Garza, Age 9, Grade 4
Sacred Heart – 96th Street, Chicago
Founder Award
Benches wait for trains
Clocks twirl their curly mustache
The floor lying down
Fumnanya Nwabudike, Age 10, Grade 4
Passages Charter School, Chicago
Poem of the School Award
spring finally came
the coldness was just a shame
flowers bloom and grow
Evie Jensen, Age 10, Grade 4
High Point Elementary, Orland Park
Poem of the School Award
flying through your dreams
floating through your imagination
falling back to bed
Emma Tostado, Age 9, Grade 4
St Viator, Chicago
Honorable Mention
The rain likes to hum
when it hits the cement ground
with a singing tone
Jeremiah Chalwe, Age 10, Grade 4
Passages Charter School, Chicago
Honorable Mention
The leaves change their moods.
The wind pushes them away.
The ground steals them all.
Julian Rios, Age 10, Grade 4
Passages Charter School, Chicago
Teacher of the Year:
Ms. Nilsa Lopezlena
Avondale-Logandale Elementary, Chicago
School of the Year:
Josephine Locke Elementary, Chicago
Ms. Mindy Gonzalez,
Ms. Moyers