Hoptown Chronicle is again sponsoring a haiku project in collaboration with The Chair Project and invites community members to participate by sharing poems with us.
“The response to our 2025 haiku contest was tremendous, and we’re looking forward to another round of creativity from our readers,” said Hoptown Chronicle editor Jennifer P. Brown.
A haiku is a three-line poem with 17 syllables — five syllables in the first line, seven syllables in the second line and five syllables in the third line.
Anyone can participate by writing a haiku about chairs. Think of all the ways we use and rely upon chairs (and benches and stools) and write your thoughts in haiku form. Share a story. Make us laugh. Make us cry. Make us think.
Hoptown Chronicle will select the best poems for publication — and we’ll award a $100 prize the best chair haiku.
The deadline to submit haiku is 11 p.m. on Wednesday, June 24. Email your original poems to us at editor@hoptownchronicle.org, and include your full name and phone number.
We’ll announce the winner at The Chair Project silent auction on Friday, June 26, at Hopkinsville Brewing Co. It starts at 5 p.m.
Proceeds from the silent auction will support the work of Sanctuary Inc., the Hopkinsville-based nonprofit that provides shelter and counseling for individuals and dependent children who need protection from domestic violence and sexual abuse.
Looking for some haiku inspiration? Here’s one Brown wrote last year:
Grandmother’s kitchen
take a seat and we will roll
Yahtzee dice for hours
And here’s one from The Chair Project coordinator, Julie-Anna Carlisle:
My gazebo chair
at the end of a long day
fly me to the moon
You can also read all of last year’s submissions and the 2025 contest winners.
