Baseball Haiku and a New Montage

Baseball season has been going on for a couple of weeks now. A few readers of this blog will probably be surprised to discover that the first baseball haiku was not written by an American. The first baseball haiku was composed in Japan by haiku master Masaoka Shiki in 1890. Jack Kerouac is credited as the first American to write a baseball haiku in the late 1950s. The reader can Google and probably find the poems that the poets penned, but I recommend that you purchase a baseball haiku anthology entitled appropriately, Baseball Haiku.

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.

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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.