International Haiku Poetry Day (IHPD) is an annual observance, on April 17, hosted and promoted by The Haiku Foundation since 2012. IHPD has incorporated several components, including the HaikuNow! International Haiku Contest, the annual THF Touchstone Awards for books and individual haiku, the Earthrise Rolling Haiku Collaboration, the HaikuLife Film Festival, and reports on local haiku gatherings around the world.

The Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems were first presented by The Haiku Foundation in 2011 for works (haiku and senryu published in 2010) that represent noteworthy additions to English-language haiku in the estimation of a distinguished panel of haiku poets, editors, and scholars. The annual competition is open to any English-language haiku or senryu published in the current calendar year.