EUI Haiku Competition Winners 2021
Many wonderful Haiku were sent in to this competition 2020/2021. Thank you to everyone who participated.
It was truly difficult to choose a winner, but after much deliberation by our wonderful panel of judges, here they are! Each topic has a winning Haiku, as well as a runner up.
You can read the winners' names here, as well as the winning poems.
Then sit down with a cup of tea and read all the other wonderful EUI Haiku written by your friends and colleagues.
Note to the poets: we have only published the names of those who gave us explicit permission. If you recognise your haiku and wish your name to be attached to it, contact
[email protected].
And the winners are...!
First Place: Adam James Humphreys
First place: Alvaro Pereira
Runners up: Pauli Aro & Joe Ganderson
Runner up: Elizabeth Banks
First place: Adrien Bradley
The Year 2020
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Lines in shifting sands,
Frozen minds take to timelines,
Deadlines are dead lines.
Adam James Humphreys
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Life in Italy
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How to be lively
Growing to be a stone pine
Squirrel will visit
Xiaoman Lin
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Your EUI experience
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Afternoon sunlight
Macchiato's cannella foam
Books cannot see masks
Alvaro Pereira
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Your research
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sure, I would work - but
the dog under the table
pokes me with its nose
Pauli Aro
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World affairs
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emptied streets and squares
screens. over the horizon,
fires on the plain
Adrien Bradley
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Runners up
The Year 2020
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Man enters building
Dreaming of autumn forests
Sanitizes hands
Anonymous
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Life in Italy
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Colors fill the air.
Tall oaks grow out of the ground,
Like earth's long brown hair.
Anonymous
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World affairs
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Invisible walls
Divide us like animals
Hunting each other
Anonymous
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Your EUI experience
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Look up that hill now!
These days it could be a while
Before you come back
Pauli Aro
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A calling, back then
To the thousand mind hillside
To read, write, love, breathe
Joe Ganderson
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Your research
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shrimp swim, boats fish, deep.
on Wall Street, a man eats prawns.
money flows back East
Elizabeth Banks
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Special Mention
One other Haiku deserved a special mention, because its author resurrected a language from the dead, introducing a new art form to Ancient Rome.
The Year 2020
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porta clausa. sic
tempus immobile per
epidemiam.
[Like a closed door. Thus
is time immobile during
the epidemic]
Anonymous
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The process of choosing the winning Haiku
Your Haiku were judged by a jury of five people from across the EUI community:
- Juho Harkonen, Professor, SPS
- Cristina Lafuente Martinez, Max Weber Fellow, ECO
- Nikita Divissenko, PhD researcher LAW
- Ana Maria Spariosu, PhD researcher, HEC
- Federica Signoriello, staff member, Library
All the Haiku were rendered anonymous by two members of the Haiku Organising Committee (Svitlana Lebedenko, Takuya Onoda, Nicola Hargreaves) before being sent to the jury. The third member of the committee only saw the Haiku after they had been made anonymous.
Each member of the jury read all of the anonymous Haiku, and ranked them within their category. They then met, together with the third member of the committee, to discuss, debate, and deliberate the Haiku they believed met the criteria of beauty and perceived authenticity.
Page last updated on 25 March 2022