SAY IT WITH A HAIKU

Participate with your poem in SMCK Magazine & Schmuck Munich Jewelry Week 2025!

SMCK Magazine invites jewelry artists and designers to sum up their work, experience, dreams or emotions by writing a short poem

––  APPLY BY 24 JANUARY 2025  ––

SMCK Magazine's project JEWELRY POEMS unites the daring beauty of contemporary jewelry with the elegance of short, yet strong and meaningful, poems comprised of freely associated words.

This telegraphic style of poetry - one to three lines, no rhythm and no conclusion - is called "haiku" in Japan. Haiku poems, a popular cultural form, can be described as sketching with words, making music with syllables, creating images with letters. Haiku poetry reflects the ephemeral turning into eternity, reality into surreality, human condition into nature.

JEWELRY POEMS is the artist’s message to the jewelry community coming to Munich for its annual Schmuck/Munich Jewelry Week meeting.

SMCK Magazine will publish artists’ poems along with a photo of their work, statement and bio/weblink in its coming print/digital/online issue.

SMCK Magazine issue No.11 titled „Made in Germany“ is coming out in February 2025. The new SMCK issue will be presented and artists' poems will be recited in Galerie Handwerk on Friday 14 March 2025 and in Galerie Weltraum on Saturday 15 March 2025 during Schmuck Munich Jewelry Week 2025.

SMCK Magazine online and digital format is available free of charge worldwide. Read and download the >>> flipbook and >>> digital magazine (PDF) of SMCK issue #10 >>> Schmuck On The Go!

HOW TO WRITE A HAIKU

• 1. Choose maximum seventeen words from the A-Z list of words >>> below.
• 2. Choose words that you freely associate with your work, your mindset and mood of the moment, your core values, your aspirations and dreams, your old home or new environment, situations that you miss or yearn for from the alphabetical list below. You may also choose words that make no sense but sound beautiful when read aloud.
• 3. Your poem may also be a hilarious or sad message to the jewelry community. It can express positive or negative feelings,  gratitude, happiness, solidarity, anger, frustration, sorrow, pain, optimism, ambition, strength, care etc.
• 4. Add personal pronouns if you wish – I, you, he, she, they, we, me, you, their, our, her, his – as well as the, and, or, but  and other conjunctions or prepositions – because, above etc.
• 5. You may use the same word more than once.
• 6. Place the words next to each other in one, two or three lines.
• 7. Try to make your poem as short as possible, and in any case, do not use more than seventeen words (17) altogether.
• 8. Add a title to your poem.

HAIKU EXAMPLE

HOW TO PARTICIPATE

Send us your poem together with one photo of your work that best expresses the very essence of your haiku. If you like the idea but you feel you cannot write a haiku, we will do it for you. Send us the words you choose - maximum seventeen (17) - and we will compose a poem for your jewelry.

Add your work statement (maximum 120 words) plus a short biography (maximum 80 words) and your website / homepage / instagram link.

Add one photo of your work in high quality - minimum image width must be 2500px - and on neutral white (black, grey) background. You can also send us various photo versions of the same object. The photo must include image captions: title, (series), year, material, technique, and photo credits.

Send your submission via email to magazine@smck.org.

PARTICIPATION FEE

Participation fee is 90,00 EUR - payable via Paypal or bank transfer.


Application deadline is Friday, 24 February 2025.

WORDS ARE A POEM'S BRICKS

Select your favorite words!

A aggressive • amber • acclaimed • adornment • astonishing • Avantgarde • assertive • aquamarine • auspicious • amalgam • ambiguous • amethyst    B beautiful • bullet • bold • body • blending • brand • breathtaking • brass • brutal • buyer • blown up • bone • blue • bride • brilliant • broth    C calm • clash • catchy • chain • colorful • chastity • candid • currency • cardiac • cross • copper • cloud • cosmic • coral • chromosome • compass    D delusion • daring • domineering • death • dazzling • desert • dramatic • dye • dust • drum • drunk • diamond    E empathy • emerald • ethical • elephant • elegant • eruption • ephemeral • eyes • educative • eggshell • explored • earth    Ffamiliar • face • fortitude • flame • fragile • fire • foam • form • freaky • feather • frivolous • frankness • foggy • French-kiss • funding • friend    G geometric • gender • greeting • gem • grieving • gratitude • groovy • giant • grateful • gold • geomorphic • gal • green • glass    H honey • harvest • hologramic • highlight • horrific • hair • homeric • hunter • hierophant • hype • healing • hammering • hermeneutical • hand    I idol • invention • ideological • inspiration • ireful • ivory • irredeemable • ink • irreversible • irk • inner • illusion • iconoclastic • idiom    J joyful • jade • javelin • jelly • justice • jacquard • jovial • jeopardy • joint • joke • jaguar • jump • Jupiter • jigsaw    K  kinetic • kite • knitted • kelp • knowledgable • knot • knock-out • karma • kinesthetic • kefir • kinky • kilim    L luminous • lord • limbo • leaf • labor • liquid • lamination • lie • lap • lover • laudable • lobby • lazy • lake • limit up • libido    M malicious • moon • mystery • mock • mokume • mountain • magic • mushroom • Mars • money • metal • misshaped • modern • murder    N naval • nose • nurturing • nail • native • necromancy • nauseous • nest • nuclear • net • nontrivial • nightmare • nocturnal • noose • now • never    O obscure • oil • oppressed • Odyssey • overwhelming • owner • organic • overlord • outdoors • oligarchy • obedience • ocean • occupied offset    P pneumatic • powder • postmortem • propaganda • provisory • politics • precarious • psyche • public • puberty • prenuptial • purse • pink • priestess    Q  quick • quantum • quality • quaker • quiet • quilt • queer • quadrillion • quasi • quizz • question • queen    R rapid • rain • rotten • remedy • resourceful • return • rock • residency • rush • river • ruby • restart    S silver • shock • subsidy • stone • speedy • Saturn • sociable • snow • solitaire • shadow • snake • storming • sun • saint • sapphire • star    T tea • tide • tremor • talisman • toxic • trophy • tropical • tiara • thanking • torture • tourmaline • text • trident • tooth    U unisex • universe • unavailable • umbrella • unidentified • urbanism • ugly • unfriend • ubiquitous • upside • uncomfortable • url    V vicious • vegetable • vain • venom • vacuum • voice • visual • valley • virgin • Venus • verified • vaccination     W wave • winner • wheat • window •  welcoming • war • wig • witness • worse • wisdom • wilderness • whip • wooden • witchcraft    X xylophone • Xerox • x-ray • x-large • x-small • xenotropic • xerography • Xmas • Xanax • Xanadu    Y yellow • yearning • yesterday • yawn • yummy • yarn • yet • young    Z zinc • zeal • zero • zoo • Zoom • zest • zodiac • zombie • zirconium • zip   

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