Donna Beaver

May 15, 2023

Episode 47: Trails Along the Pacific Rim

Donna Beaver

May 15, 2023

Episode 47: Trails Along the Pacific Rim

A ginko walk with docents Art and Ann Muto along the coast of Point Lobos in Monterey, California. The video includes haiku by poets inspired by the journey on the trail and those who attended our virtual ginko at Haiku North America 2021.

Donna Beaver

August 30, 2020

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Episode 46: African American Haiku

Donna Beaver

August 30, 2020

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Join us to celebrate African American haiku with special guest poet, Crystal Simone Smith. Featuring readings by Crystal, Lamont B. Steptoe, L. Teresa Church, Gideon Young, Lenard Moore, and Valeria Bullock.

Donna Beaver

April 5, 2020

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Episode 45: Haiku Prose with Poet Lew Watts

Donna Beaver

April 5, 2020

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Episode 45: Haiku Prose with Poet Lew Watts

To kick-off, National Poetry Month enjoy a delightful reading of haibun (haiku prose) by our special guest poet, Lew Watts.

Donna Beaver

March 6, 2020

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Episode 44: Crawling with Insects

Donna Beaver

March 6, 2020

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Listen in and bug out with poet, naturalist, and Education Director at the Watershed Institute in Pennington, NJ, Jeff Hoagland who shares his presentation “Crawling with Insects” from the Haiku North America Conference 2019 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Donna Beaver

April 6, 2019

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Episode 43: Haiku Getaway

Donna Beaver

April 6, 2019

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Join us in the forests of Washington state for a nature walk with poet and naturalist, Ruth Yarrow at the Seabeck Haiku Getaway (2014); with a few poems by Ruth, followed by a selection of haiku by other poets at the Getaway

Donna Beaver

January 8, 2019

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Episode 42: Strictly for the Birds

Donna Beaver

January 8, 2019

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Come fly with us in celebration of our feathered friends the birds with special guests, poems, bird calls, music, and humor that is strictly for the birds.

Donna Beaver

September 11, 2018

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Episode 41: 9/11 Memorial

Donna Beaver

September 11, 2018

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Host and poet Alan Pizzarelli wrote this haiku in the mid-1990's. Since 9/11 in 2001, this haiku has resonated with an added meaning for many readers. Let us not forget, the memory of our peaceful world, before that horrible day and make for a more peaceful future.

Donna Beaver

January 28, 2018

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Episode 40: Teaching Haiku

Donna Beaver

January 28, 2018

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Poets/Teachers Tom Painting and Arlie Parker offer invaluable insights into the art of teaching haiku to students in the schools. Guests include Henry Brann and Robin Palley from the Nick Virgilio Haiku Association. A must for all teachers and haiku aficionados.

Donna Beaver

October 25, 2017

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Episode 39: An Exhibition of Concrete Poetry

Donna Beaver

October 25, 2017

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Episode 39: An Exhibition of Concrete Poetry

This video short exhibits classic concrete poetry, from the Calligrammes of Apollinaire, the mouse’s tail in Alice; the worldwide concrete “renaissance” of the early sixties, to contemporary visual, animated, and kinetic concrete poetry (including haiku) by poets of today.

Donna Beaver

August 31, 2017

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Episode 38: Yéil (Raven)

Donna Beaver

August 31, 2017

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A poetic journey up the coastline of Southeast Alaska, land of the totems and the Tlingit Indians. A visual story with totemic imagery and words honoring the Raven clan and the “potlatch.”