Haiku Chronicles

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

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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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In this episode Donna Beaver and Alan Pizzarelli discuss the distinction between the poetic forms of Haiku and Senryū, the origins of Senryū in Japan, and its rediscovery and recognition as a poetic form in English literature.

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Credit for choral arrangements of Alan Pizzarelli’s Senryū:

  the fat lady
  bends over the tomatoes
  a full moon

       The  Marietta Choir

   buzzZ
       slaP
   buzzZ

            Commissioned by soprano Maria Knapik-Sztramko
            for the Guelph Spring Festival,  May 19, 1993
            Ontario, Canada

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This episode of Haiku Chronicles takes us back to 16th century Japan when the first great Japanese master of haiku, Matsuo Basho wrote his breakthrough haiku, “Furu-Ike-Ya” (Old Pond). Donna Beaver and Alan Pizzarelli discuss the poem’s interesting history and its influence on the poetic form of haiku.

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