Haiku Chronicles

If you thought haiku was just a 17 syllable nature poem, you have another think coming! Important insights and distinctions are discussed by Anita Virgil. And she discloses her letter from Harold G. Henderson stating why he wanted haiku re-defined. The final definitions he approved are all here.

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Books referenced, One Potato Two Potato Etc., Peaks Press, copyright 1991 by Anita Virgil; A Haiku Path, The Haiku Society of America 1968-1988, copyright 1994 by The Haiku Society of America, Inc.

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Poet Anita Virgil’s invaluable “Guide to Haiku” plus the crafting of one classic haiku.

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To celebrate Baseball and the World Series, Haiku Chronicles takes you “back to the ball game” with baseball haiku. Discussion and readings of baseball haiku and senryu by Cor van den Heuvel, Ed Markowski, Alan Pizzarelli, and Donna Beaver.

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Special thanks to the W. W. Norton & Company publisher of Baseball Haiku edited by Cor van den Heuvel and Nanae Tamura and the Chautauqua Institution, New York for the 2008 audio segments of Ed Markowski.  The Haydn Quartet with Harry MacDonough singing, Take me Out to the Ball Game (cir. 1908, Public Domain).

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This episode focuses on the more contemporary poets and poems from the Haiku Anthology with guest Cor van den Heuvel.

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Special thanks to WHYY, Inc., Philadelphia for the 1975 audio segments of Nick Virgilio and Virginia Brady Young.

WHYY, Philadelphia: http://www.whyy.org/

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Part II, features a reading and discussion of haiku poetry by Allen Ginsberg; with guest Cor van den Heuvel.

Donna Beaver and Alan Pizzarelli continue their discussion with guest Cor van den Heuvel on the history of American haiku highlighting the Beat Poets. This episode also features a reading and discussion of haiku poetry by Allen Ginsberg from his lectures at Naropa University.

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Special thanks to Bob Rosenthal, the Allen Ginsberg Project and Naropa University for the haiku segments from Allen Ginsberg’s poetry classes, “On Vividness and Close Observation in Writing” (1982) and “On Writing Poetry” (1984) at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado.

Allen Ginsberg Project: http://www.allenginsberg.org/

Naropa University Archives: http://www.archive.org/details/naropa

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Part I, Cor van den Heuvel joins hosts Donna Beaver and Alan Pizzarelli to discuss the history of American haiku.

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