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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
