Scrapbook: More of the Hoboken Haiku Gang
In the tradition of the first major league ballgame which took place in Hoboken, NJ in 1846, the Hoboken Haiku Gang met in Hoboken and wrote baseball haiku and senryu. Here are baseball poems by Alan Pizzarelli, Cor ven den Huevel and Bruce Kennedy. For more baseball haiku see the Baseball Haiku Anthology (W.W. Norton). Photo Left: from left to right Alan Pizzarelli, Cor ven den Huevel, Emiko Miyashita (photo by Bruce Kennedy). blue sky I buy a ticket to a minor league game Bruce…
Scrapbook: Poets in Hoboken, NJ
Al Pizzarelli and Cor van den Heuvel occasionally meet with visiting poets in Hoboken, NJ. On this day in the mid-80′s renku master, Shokan Tadashi Kondo was visiting from Japan. It mark the first meeting of what was to become the “Hoboken Haiku Gang.” [box]carried from the car the ventriloquist’s dummy looks around Alan Pizzarelli[/box] [box]autumn light the puppeteer eating alone Shokan Tadashi Kondo[/box] [box]the shadow in the folded napkin Cor van den Heuvel[/box]
Scrapbook: Haiku on 42nd Street
In 1994, poet Dee Evetts organized and curated the “Haiku on 42nd Street” project, with funding from the City of New York, in which haiku by 26 local poets was displayed for six months on the marquees of vacant movie theaters, during the redevelopment of 42nd Street at Times Square. Since then, Haiku On 42nd St., originally a bestselling poster, has been adapted and was re-introduced in 2004 as a postcard collection by Clerisy Press. This “shoeshine boy” senryu was originally written from and observation…
