Episode 7: Baseball Haiku
Haiku Chronicles takes you "back to the ballgame" with baseball haiku. Discussion and readings of baseball haiku and senryu by Alan Pizzarelli, Donna Beaver, Cor van den Heuvel and Ed Markowski.
View ArticleEpisode 8: The Crafting of Haiku
Poet Anita Virgil's invaluable "Guide to Haiku" plus the crafting of one classic haiku.
View ArticleEpisode 9: The Definition
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....
View ArticleEpisode 10: Haibun – Haiku Prose
The Haiku related form HAIBUN is the focus of this episode, including readings of contemporary haibun by Cor van den Heuvel, Anita Virgil, Alan Pizzarelli, and Donna Beaver.
View ArticleHC Episode 11: Q&A
Q&A episode with the Global Haiku Students from Millikin University.
View ArticleEpisode 12: The Four Pillars Part I – The Narrow Thread
Undoubtedly a controversial piece, these excerpts from "The Narrow Thread" by Anita Virgil trace an innermost theme in Basho's poetry. In 2004 Ray Bradbury wrote to Virgil calling it "fascinating."
View ArticleEpisode 13: Tangled Hair (tanka women)
Special guests Hiroaki Sato, Yuko Otomo and Steve Dalachinsky join us in a round-table discussion of the Tanka poetry and modern Women Tanka Poets.
View ArticleEpisode 14: The Four Pillars Part II – Buson’s Two Candles
Buson's Two Candles" is a very private interpretation/expansion of appreciation for this poet's breadth of subject matter and his variety of "styles" of writing. Anita Virgil, an artist by training,...
View ArticleEpisode 15: Thunder Moon – A Renku Party
An invaluable guide to renku composition with renku master, Kris Moon Kondo. Al and Donna join guest poets Henry Brann, Robin Palley, Penny Harter to write the collaborative poetic form Renku.
View ArticleEpisode 16: The Four Pillars Part III – Issa: The Uses of Adversity
Issa, Japan's most beloved haiku poet is put under a microscope by Anita Virgil in order to distinguish and delineate three basic directions his poems take.
View ArticleEpisode 17: Tea Talk – An Anthology of Premodern Japanese Senryu
A review and discussion of Makoto Ueda’s book of senyru, “Light Verse from the Floating World” with hosts Donna Beaver and Alan Pizzarelli.
View ArticleEpisode 18: Blossom Storm
A celebration of poetry, dance, music and cherry blossoms at the Branch Brook Park Annual Bloomfest in New Jersey. This video podcast features classic Japanese haiku, cultural demonstrations, and...
View ArticleEpisode 19: The Four Pillars Part IV – A Cool Assessment (Shiki)
In "A Cool Assessment” poet Anita Virgil offers new insights to the underlying role Shiki's tuberculosis plays in many of his poems.
View ArticleEpisode 20: Tea Talk – A Second Cup
A reading of summer poems and brief discussion of season words (kigo).
View ArticleEpisode 21: Halloween Extravaganza
A mad-cap romp at a wild Hallowe'en party with Al & Donna that tucks some classic senryu and parodies into the mouths of icons of horror and humor.
View ArticleEpisode 22: Haiga Gallery
Get on board for an exciting trip. Destination HAIGA. Donna, Al and Anita Virgil have packed classical and contemporary haiku, senryu and tanka with striking visual accompaniments — many with a twist.
View ArticleEpisode 23: Tea Talk – Haiku: A Way of Life
Guest poets Cor van den Heuvel, Emiko Miyashita, and Bruce Kennedy join Al and Donna in an open discussion on haiku as a way of life.
View ArticleEpisode 24: Sequences
In this episode, the poetic form of sequences is explored with guest poets Cor van den Heuvel, Emiko Miyashita, and Bruce Kennedy. Featuring Alexis Rotella reading her classic sequence, “After an...
View ArticleEpisode 25: Ginko – Special Guest Dr. Akito Arima (video)
HC Episode 25: Ginko (VIDEO) Distinguished scientist, scholar, and haiku poet, Dr. Akito Arima joins us in a conversation on the subject of a ginko walk, writing haiku, and seeing the world with new eyes.
View ArticleEpisode 26: Ants on the Sidewalk (video)
HC Episode 26: Ants of the Sidewalk A video montage of urban haibun, haiku and senryu featuring poets, Naia, Deborah P Kolodji and Gregory Longenecker; with photographs, video clips and classic jazz...
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