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.
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.
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.
Part III of the History of American Haiku series: This episode focuses on the more contemporary poets and poems from the Haiku Anthology with guest Cor van den Heuvel. This episode also features a readings by Nick Virgilio and Virginia Brady Young.
