Name: Jan On Jack by Marjorie Van Halteren
Duration: 6 min 42 s
Description: a radio piece featuring sound discovered in the WNYC archives and the recorded voice of Jan Kerouac.

a radio piece featuring sound discovered in the WNYC archives and the recorded voice of Jan Kerouac. 

Jan On Jack

insect tremolo
soberingly cools the heat
of farmland roads

Kogetsu Eguchi (1825-1867) was a Japanese poet active in the late Edo period. Together with Kazan Watanabe, he authored the haiku book Tōke shunchō.

Haiku by Kogetsu Eguchi

Picture by Luca Ercolani

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quicksand

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lullaby

young grasses -
not yet bent
in any direction

Kaga no Chiyo-jo (1703–1775) was a haiku poet discovered by Kagami Shiko at a very young age. She became a Buddhist nun at 52 and wrote around 1,900 haiku in her lifetime. A highlight of her poetry career was presenting haiku to a Korean delegation in 1763, one of the first cultural exchanges of this kind.

Haiku by Kaga no Chiyo

Picture by Kateryna Viderska

This haiku poem is part of the Naviar haiku music challenge, where artists are invited to make music in response to a weekly assigned haiku poem. Participation is free and there are no limitations in the songs’ length or genre.

To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

SONG 118 - NaviarHaiku608 - Young Grasses

made for the naviar haiku challenge #608: https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku608-young-grasses/

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Jan On Jack

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