HC Episode 18: Blossom Storm
A celebration of poetry, dance, music and cherry blossoms. This video podcast features classic Japanese poetry, cultural demonstrations, and performances at Branch Brook Park, New Jersey.
May 22, 2011•18 min
Haiku Chronicles
Haiku Chronicles is designed to provide a better understanding and appreciation of the art of Haiku and its related forms including senryu, renku, tanka, haibun and haiga. In these podcasts, poets Alan Pizzarelli and Donna Beaver will discuss the origins and poetic principles of these poetic forms in the English language, featuring poems by the most prominent poets of the genre.
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HC Episode 17: Tea Talk - An Anthology of Premodern Japanese Senryu
A review and discussion of Makoto Ueda's book of senryu, "Light Verse from the Floating World" with hosts Donna Beaver and Alan Pizzarelli.
Mar 27, 2011•12 min
HC Episode 16: The Four Pillars Part III - Issa: The Uses of Adversity
Kobayashi Issa, Japan's most beloved haiku poet is put under a microscope in order to distinguish and delineate three basic directions his poems take. Written and narrated by Anita Virgil. The complete essay of, "Issa: The Uses of Adversity" is available in the Haiku Chronicles Reading Room at: www.haikuchronicles.com
Jan 24, 2011•39 min
HC Episode 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. Read the final Kasen Renku (36 stanzas) by poets and learn more on the Haiku Chronicles Blog page: http://haikuchronicles.com/2010/10/e15_thundermoon/
Oct 26, 2010•1 hr 10 min
HC Episode 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, viewed Buson’s original artwork at Asia House in NYC. The complete essay of, “Buson’s Two Candles” by Anita Virgil is available in the Haiku Chronicles, Reading Room at: www.haikuchronicles.com
Aug 22, 2010•19 min
HC Episode 13: Tanka Part I - Tangled Hair
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.
Jul 11, 2010•30 min
HC Episode 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." The complete essay of "The Narrow Thread" is available in the Haiku Chronicles , Reading Room at: www.haikuchronicles.com
May 16, 2010•39 min
HC Episode 11: Q&A
Q&A episode with the Global Haiku Students from Millikin University. Thanks to Professor Randy Brooks and the students from Millikin for their insightful questions. Special thanks to our Haiku Chronicles panelist, poet Anita Virgil for her participation and input on questions in this episode.
Apr 12, 2010•37 min
HC Episode 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.
Feb 15, 2010•21 min
HC Episode 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. Henderson stating why he wanted haiku re-defined. The final definitions he approved are all here. Credits: 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,...
Dec 25, 2009•26 min
HC Episode 8: The Crafting of Haiku
Poet Anita Virgil's invaluable "Guide to Haiku" plus the crafting of one classic haiku.
Nov 22, 2009•17 min
HC Episode 7: Baseball Haiku
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 M...
Nov 02, 2009•14 min
HC Episode 6: History of American Haiku Part III, The Haiku Anthology
This episode focuses on the more contemporary poets and poems from the Haiku Anthology with guest Cor van den Heuvel. Credit Information: Special thanks to WHYY, Inc., Philadelphia for the 1975 audio segments of Nick Virgilio and Virginia Brady Young. WHYY, Philadelphia
Oct 19, 2009•18 min
HC Episode 5: History of American Haiku Part II, The Beat Poets
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 haik...
Aug 31, 2009•25 min
HC Episode 4: History of American Haiku Part I, Roots
Part I, Cor van den Heuvel joins hosts Donna Beaver and Alan Pizzarelli to discuss the history of American haiku.
Aug 02, 2009•11 min
HC Episode 3: Senryu, Son of Haiku
In this episode Donna Beaver and Alan Pizzarelli discuss the distinction between the poetic forms of Haiku and Senryu, the origins of Senryu in Japan, and its rediscovery and recognition as a poetic form in English literature. Credit for choral arrangements of Alan Pizzarelli's Senryu: "the fat lady" Performed by The Marietta Choir "buzzZ" Commissioned by soprano Maria Knapik-Sztramko for the Guelph Spring Festival, May 19, 1993 Ontario, Canada For more on Haiku Chronicles visit: http://www.haik...
Jun 26, 2009•20 min
HC Episode 2: Basho's Frog
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.
Jun 03, 2009•10 min•Ep. 2
HC Episode 1: The Lost Tapes
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. For more on Haiku Chronicles visit: www.haikuchronicles.com Haiku Chronicles copyright 2009
Apr 26, 2009•22 min•Ep. 1
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