The Asian Heritage Month Annual Haiku contest is back! We invite BMCC staff, faculty and students to get their Haiku game on. This year’s theme word is “rebels.” Submit your entry online. The deadline to submit your haiku is Friday April 24, 2026 at 11:59 a.m.. The winners will be contacted on Monday, April 27, 2026. Winners of the Haiku contest will receive a FREE ticket to the Asian Heritage Month Dinner on May 1 and a gift card for Yu and Me Books. Although all BMCC community members are encouraged to submit a haiku, only students will receive the Yu and Me Books gift card if they win. Faculty and staff are not eligible to receive the gift card. About Haiku The haiku is a Japanese poetic form that consists of three lines, with five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the third. An example of haiku by Matsuo Basho: Old pond A frog jumps in The sound of water Wait–that poem by Matsuo Basho doesn’t seem to follow the 5-7-5 rule. Actually, it does in his native Japanese, though not in the English translation. Every haiku has two parts to it. It’s divided in the middle by what’s called a “cutting word”. What do you think is the cutting word in the poem above by Matsuo Basho? See a complete list of Asian Heritage Month events. Attend 2 or more Asian Heritage Month events for Co-Curricular Transcript (CCT) credit. If you have any questions, contact one of the following: Professor NaRhee Ahn, Co-Chair naahn@bmcc.cuny.edu Shahreen Laskar, Co-Chair slaskar@bmcc.cuny.edu
