Alan Pizzarelli posted an interview on his web site recently that features three poets from the anthology. Cor van den Heuvel (co-editor), Ed Markowski, and Alan enjoy a lighthearted interview conducted by Jimmy Roselle.
Allan Burns has informed me that a new Montage gallery featuring poems by Paul O. Williams, Marian Olson, and Paul MacNeil is available in pdf format from Red Moon Press. The theme for this Montage is "The Good Earth" and honors Earth Day and Arbor Day .
I also recommend that the reader look through the Montage archive. This is a very interesting series with many excellent haiku, including a Montage dedicated to baseball.
8 comments:
Dear,
nitpicking about who wrote the first haiku about baseball is hilarious but irrelevant because it is only superficial knowledge. I prefere more wisdom from the haiku world. Mediocrity and haiku are conflicting.
Perhaps to you, Geert, but I don't consider the post or the origins of the first baseball haiku nitpicking. For people who love the game of baseball and haiku poetry (such as myself) the information was/is intended to be useful. It's certainly not mediocre or superficial.
But you're certainly entitled to your opinion.
Take care,
Curtis
Curtis,
Thanks for mentioning Montage--and for all you do here in the service of haiku and its history.
Best wishes,
Allan
You are welcome, Allan. And thank you for the kind words.
All the best,
Curtis
Being part Dutch (on my birth mother's side) maybe I can respond to Geert's comment! ;-)Before that, I am a little frivolous in nature, but also very very serious at the same time about haiku, and see life-changing incidents in my haiku workshops.
An award-winning bookshop, who were so impressed by a recent haiku event, asked me recently to suggest a more extensive haiku book list then they have already started.
It was very hard to suggest some of the books I use for my workshop resources as fine books like Salad Anniversary (yes, it's tanka) and The Haiku World are out of print (correct me if I'm wrong, please!).
But amongst the books I suggested (Snapshot Press books etc...) I just had to promote Baseball Haiku, and as I have a nearly full 'book purchase loyalty card' it's a book I'll be buying from them very shortly.
It's a great looking book, and it's a useful handle to state that Shiki (4th haiku pillar) and Jack Kerouac wrote haiku, and I shamelessly plugged them along with a few other names.
Thanks also for highlighting Al's new sight, as I'm always interested in good senryu sites too.
all my very best,
Alan
With Wordsp.s. BTW Geert has contributed a lot to haiku, and I do bow humbly before him.
well, I don't have a problem with
Geert's post, anyhow, thanks for sharing Allan and Curtis. I don't
believe that the Phillies will repeat, but you never know...
Always,
Gene
Dear haiku lovers,
my comment about 'nitpicking' was inspired by a few mails I received in the past about the same issue. Kerouac or Shiki? Both are welcome, I don't care much about who was the first one. Baseball lovers should visite the Shiki-Kinen museum in Matsuyama Japan to see his baseball stick.
Hello, Curtis,
When I followed the Montage baseball link, it returned a 404 error, but after some looking around I found it had moved here:
http://thehaikufoundation.org/montage/montage_2009_04_05.pdf
Just thought you'd want to know.
cat
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