Haiku Chronicles - HC Episode 2: Basho's Frog

HC Episode 2: Basho's Frog

06/03/09 • 10 min

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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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HC Episode 1: The Lost Tapes

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.

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HC Episode 3: Senryu, Son of Haiku

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In this episode Donna Beaver and Alan Pizzarelli discuss the distinction between the poetic forms of Haiku and Senryu, the origins of Senryu in Japan, and its rediscovery and recognition as a poetic form in English literature.

Credit for choral arrangements of Alan Pizzarelli's Senryu:

"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

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