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.
Podcast Original Release Date: April 25, 2009

Episode 1:  The Lost Tapes

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.
Podcast Original Release Date: June 3, 2009

Episode 2: Basho’s Frog

Sensei Akito Arima talks about haiku education in schools and retaining one’s originality in the art of haiku poetry. Outtake from Episode 25: Ginko - A Conversation with Dr. Akito Arima. Recorded on the Monterey Peninsula's "Refuge by the Sea" - Asilomar State Beach and Conference, California.

HC Episode 33: Dr. Arima Outtake

Alan Pizzarelli shares a letter from Professor Harold G. Henderson written to him in 1971. From his talk at the 2014 Seabeck Haiku Getaway in Seabeck, Washington. Harold G. Henderson (1889-1974) was a Japanese scholar and author of The Bamboo Room (1933) which became the revised version, An Introduction to Haiku (1958), the first notable works on modern English-language haiku. Henderson’s papers were given to the New York Public Library in 1974.

HC Episode 34: The Henderson Letter

Join us for a lighthearted fun episode in observance of “Bad Poetry Day.”&nbsp; Al and Donna discuss three books that fit the occasion.&nbsp; Spoiler Alert!&nbsp; Not ALL of the poems are bad.&nbsp;

HC Episode 37: Not Exactly Haiku

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

HC Episode 40: Teaching Haiku

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.&nbsp;

HC Episode 42: Strictly for the Birds

Listen in and bug out with poet, naturalist, and Educator,&nbsp;Jeff Hoagland,&nbsp;who&nbsp;shares his presentation “Crawling with Insects” at the Haiku North America Conference 2019 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Plus, a reading of favorite bug haiku.&nbsp; &nbsp;

HC Episode 44: Crawling with Insects

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