• Tea Talk

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

    Sunday, March 18, 2012

    HC Episode 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.…

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  • Episode 22: Haiga Gallery

    Wednesday, January 4, 2012

    HC Episode 22: Haiga Gallery (VIDEO)
    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.
     
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  • Episode 20: Tea Talk – A Second Cup

    Episode 20: Tea Talk – A Second Cup

    Saturday, September 10, 2011

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    HC Episode 20: Tea Talk – A Second Cup
    A reading of summer poems and brief discussion of season words (kigo).

     
     

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  • Episode 19: A Cool Assessment (Essay by Anita Virgil)

    Episode 19: A Cool Assessment (Shiki)

    Monday, July 4, 2011

    HC Episode 19: 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.

     
     
     
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  • Episode 18: Blossom Storm

    Saturday, May 21, 2011

    HC Episode 18: Blossom Storm
    A celebration of poetry, dance, music and cherry blossoms at Branch Brook Park (New Jersey). This video podcast features classic Japanese poetry, cultural demonstrations, and performances.
     
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  • Episode 17: Tea Talk – An Anthology of Premodern Japanese Senryu

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

    Sunday, March 27, 2011

    HC Episode 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.

     
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  • Episode 16: Issa: The Uses of Adversity (Essay by Anita Virgil)

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

    Sunday, January 23, 2011

    HC Episode 16: The Four Pillars Part III – Issa: The Uses of Adversity
    Issa, Japan’s most beloved haiku poet is put under a microscope in order to distinguish and delineate three basic directions his poems take.

     
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  • Episode 13: Tangled Hair

    Episode 13: Tangled Hair (tanka women)

    Sunday, July 11, 2010

    HC Episode 13: Tanka Women – 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.

     
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Announcements

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May
6

The Canary Funeral

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New book of selected works by our host, Alan Pizzarelli “The Canary Funeral”

PURCHASE BOOK NOW

Go the book link (above) to read the Author’s Notes.
POEMS from the Book:…
burying a dead bird
the small boy
hums the wedding march
 
done
the shoeshine boy
snaps his rag
 
with no money
i go
snow viewing
 

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Podcast Rewind

May
21

Episode 18: Blossom Storm

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HC Episode 18: Blossom Storm
A celebration of poetry, dance, music and cherry blossoms at Branch Brook Park (New Jersey). This video podcast features classic Japanese poetry, cultural demonstrations, and performances.
 
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Nov
1

Episode 7: Baseball Haiku

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HC 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.

 
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Jun
3

Episode 2: Basho’s Frog

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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.

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Apr
25

The Lost Tapes

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HC Episode 1: The Lost Tapes
Rewind back to our First Episode:
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.