Haiku Chronicles

HC Episode 23: Tea Talk – Haiku: A Way of Life

haikuchronicles — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:09:36 +0000

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.

HC Episode 22: Haiga Gallery

haikuchronicles — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:36:18 +0000

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.

Also available on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/34435340

HC Episode 21: Halloween Extravaganza

haikuchronicles — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:37:13 +0000

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.

HC Episode 20: Tea Talk – A Second Cup

haikuchronicles — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 04:08:23 +0000

A reading of summer poems and brief discussion of season words (kigo).

HC Episode 19: A Cool Assessment

haikuchronicles — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 20:09:11 +0000

In “A Cool Assessment” poet Anita Virgil offers new insights to the underlying role Shiki’s tuberculosis plays in many of his poems.

HC Episode 18: Blossom Storm

haikuchronicles — Sun, 22 May 2011 02:43:15 +0000

A celebration of poetry, dance, music and cherry blossoms. This video podcast features classic Japanese poetry, cultural demonstrations, and performances.

HC Episode 17: Tea Talk – An Anthology of Premodern Japanese Senryu

haikuchronicles — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 23:32:43 +0000

A review and discussion of Makoto Ueda’s book of senryu, “Light Verse from the Floating World” with hosts Donna Beaver and Alan Pizzarelli.

HC Episode 16: The Four Pillars Part III – Issa: The Uses of Adversity

haikuchronicles — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 01:42:33 +0000

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

HC Episode 15: Thunder Moon – A Renku Party

haikuchronicles — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 04:30:27 +0000

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/

HC Episode 14: The Four Pillars Part II – Buson’s Two Candles

haikuchronicles — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 00:22:30 +0000

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

HC Episode 13: Tanka Part I – Tangled Hair

haikuchronicles — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 23:29:33 +0000

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.

HC Episode 12: The Four Pillars Part I – The Narrow Thread

haikuchronicles — Sun, 16 May 2010 19:30:10 +0000

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

HC Episode 11: Q&A

haikuchronicles — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 04:38:41 +0000

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.

HC Episode 10: Haibun – Haiku Prose

haikuchronicles — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:29:16 +0000

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.

HC Episode 9: The Definition

haikuchronicles — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 22:12:57 +0000

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, Inc.

HC 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.

HC 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).

HC 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.

Credit Information:

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

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

HC 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

HC 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.

HC 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.

Credit for choral arrangements of Alan Pizzarelli’s Senryū:

“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

HC 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.

HC 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.

For more on Haiku Chronicles visit: www.HaikuChronicles.com