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We're tapping our archive of haiku to create a variety of new poetry-based products. Shop for an assortment of cards, including customizable cards, on the page devoted to haiku cards.

If you're the do-it-yourself type, you can download a card here and print it yourself. You'll get a PDF of an 8.5 x 11-inch sheet, which you can trim and fold to a 5 x 7-inch card.

Start with our Syracuse word cloud card, based on haiku submissions in 2017. "Snow," of course, ranks among the most prevalent words, but also large are "Green" and "Summer."

Syracuse Word Cloud Card (249 KB): Click to download

Poet Marilyn Shelton has seen several of her haiku inspire posters, but in this case we applied her work to a note card. The graphic ornament and typesetting is by Toni Toland, retired from teaching advertising design at Syracuse University.

Thanks to SU's recruitment of Chinese students, Syracuse has come to be known by the Chinese as "Snow City." So it seems fitting that one of our Chinese interns, Qianyi Wang, would set the type for the Chinese version of our snowflake card.

Snowflake Card, English (96 KB): Click to download

Snowflake Card, Chinese (172 KB): Click to download

We offer this card thanks to Jamie Santos, a tattoo artist and active member of the Syracuse art scene. When Jamie reached out to us, we suggested she browse our archive of haiku, and pick out a couple to illustrate as note cards. Jamie's vertical text panels also lend themselves to Chinese, so we created Chinese versions, with help from our Chinese intern, Tong Jin.
The poem, by Jennifer Groff:

Flowering trees flaunt
voluptuous silky blooms
of new spring dresses

Flower Woman Card, English (815 KB): Click to download

Flower Woman Card, Chinese (889 KB): Click to download

Destiny is shaped
like butterfly wings. Allow
your dreams to take flight.

--Oubon Phommanyrath

--Design by Jamie Santos

Butterfly Card, English (787 KB): Click to download

Butterfly Card, Chinese (807 KB): Click to download

Ten favorite haiku about crows, selected from our archives by Gene Huggins, former president of the Onondaga Chapter of Audubon.

Featured poets: Ellen Agnew, Joan Cofrancesco, Jay Cox, Renee-Noelle Felice, Nan Gartner, Mark Kuney, Lawrence Kurlandsky, Jungtae Lee and Doreen Miori-Merola.

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PDF version (225 KB): Click to dowload

Download Free Passwords & Poems Booklet

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