Haiku Chronicles

Haiku Chronicles: Episode 8 - The Crafting of Haiku

haikuchronicles — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:15:00 +0000

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

Haiku Chronicles: Episode 7 - Baseball Haiku

haikuchronicles — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:03:06 +0000

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.

Credit Information:

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).

Haiku Chronicles: Episode 6 - History of American Haiku Part III, The Haiku Anthology

haikuchronicles — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:24:52 +0000

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/

Haiku Chronicles: Episode 5 - History of American Haiku Part II, The Beat Poets

haikuchronicles — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:18:22 +0000

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.

Credit Information:

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

Haiku Chronicles: Episode 4 - History of American Haiku Part I, Roots

haikuchronicles — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 21:33:00 +0000

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

Haiku Chronicles: Episode 3 - Senryū, Son of Haiku

haikuchronicles — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:02:18 +0000

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

Haiku Chronicles: Episode 2 - Basho’s Frog

haikuchronicles — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:32:26 +0000

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.

Haiku Chronicles: Episode 1 - The Lost Tapes

haikuchronicles — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 03:57:34 +0000

To celebrate Poetry Month the Haiku Chronicles takes you back to March of 1979 where poets Al Pizzarelli, Cor van den Heuval, Anita Virgil, Bill Higginson, and Penny Harter recorded a reading of their poems at Studio 198 in Newark, NJ.

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