Alan Pizzarelli http://alanpizzarelli.com Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:07:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 Can’t we all just get along? #2 http://alanpizzarelli.com/cant-we-all-just-get-along-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cant-we-all-just-get-along-2 http://alanpizzarelli.com/cant-we-all-just-get-along-2/#comments Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:29:07 +0000 Admin http://alanpizzarelli.com/?p=864 Number 2: Brief excerpt of Gregory Corso’s reading his classic beat poem “BOMB”
(with animation by Shannon Larratt)

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Label / Recorded by: Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics

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]]> http://alanpizzarelli.com/whats-new/feed/ 0 Macro Video http://alanpizzarelli.com/macro-video/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=macro-video http://alanpizzarelli.com/macro-video/#comments Sat, 21 Jan 2012 02:18:12 +0000 Admin http://alanpizzarelli.com/?p=761 Haiku Chronicles]]> New Video from Haiku Chronicles.

Get on board for an exciting trip. Destination HAIGA. Podcast hosts, Donna Beaver, Alan Pizzarelli, and guest Anita Virgil have packed classical and contemporary haiku, senryu and tanka with striking visual accompaniments —many with a twist.

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]]> http://alanpizzarelli.com/boneyard-video/feed/ 0 haiku http://alanpizzarelli.com/haiku1/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=haiku1 http://alanpizzarelli.com/haiku1/#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2012 04:46:24 +0000 Admin http://alanpizzarelli.com/?p=311 haiku: fading across the grooves / of a glacial rock / a bird’s wet footprints

]]> http://alanpizzarelli.com/haiku1/feed/ 0 Amusement Park http://alanpizzarelli.com/amusement-park/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amusement-park http://alanpizzarelli.com/amusement-park/#comments Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:34:55 +0000 Admin http://alanpizzarelli.com/?p=453 haiku and senryu

 

the tattoo’d man walks onto the crowded beach

 

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haiku and senryu
by Alan Pizzarelli
 

Amusement Park Book Cover

Amusement Park Book Cover (photo by Alan Pizzarelli)


 

the tattoo’d man
walks onto the crowded beach

 

a monarch flutters out to sea

 

drop of ocean
in my navel
reflects

the amusement park

 

under the boardwalk
sunlight brightens and fades

 

the setting sun
lights the top
of the high striker

 

spinning cotton candy
the girl with the teased-up hair

 

the taffy pullers
                  the taffy pullers
the taffy pullers

 

on the merry-go-round
that empty blue bench

 

      before the fireworks
             fireflies

 

above the arcade
a yellow moon flashes
through drifting clouds

 

skee ball
the kid with a fistful of tickets
wins a plastic bubble pipe

 

the fortune teller
snaps the curtain shut

 

the ferris wheel turning
into the fog

 

 

              copyright ©2010 Alan Pizzarelli

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Music by Alan Pizzarelli
Lyrics by Herschel Silverman

]]> http://alanpizzarelli.com/old-joe/feed/ 0 City Beat http://alanpizzarelli.com/city-beat/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=city-beat http://alanpizzarelli.com/city-beat/#comments Sat, 30 Jul 2011 22:52:26 +0000 Admin http://alanpizzarelli.com/?p=705 urban haiku, senryu, and sequences
by Alan Pizzarelli

from City Beat

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urban haiku, senryu, and sequences
by Alan Pizzarelli

from City Beat
(City Beat book cover by Cor van den Huevel)

 
 

in the rear-view mirror
tombstones

 

crossing the bridge
car wheels humm
over a metal grating

 

Vup!
a distant tugboat

 

Manhattan skyscrapers
the sun sets red
in all the windows

 

dik-duk dit-duk
a loose manhole cover

 

a hubcap
rolls down the midnight street
into its distant sound

   —

 

a bright awning is cranked
over the corner fruitstand

 

in front of the go-go bar
  a broken umbrella
    shakes with the wind

 

in the tv store
on all the screens
cloned sheep

 

the windowpane reflects
a tv cartoon
snow falling

 

slicing a ripe pomegranate
watching the horror movie

 

in the shade
of the animal hospital
white azaleas wilting

 

blistering heat
  the snow cone vendor
      pushes his cart uphill

 

on the curbstone
a dog licks the boy’s
scabby knees

 

summer moon
everyone sitting
out on the stoops

 

in the stream
  a shopping cart
      fills with leaves

 

a few snowflakes
fall on the candy store window
the lights go out

 

darkness moves
over the rooftops
snow light

 

blue shadows loom
the snow corniced street

 

snow falls from trees
         rumble
of passing boxcars

 

twilight
staples rust
in the telephone pole

 

City Beat (Islet Books, 1991), first place winner of the 1992 Merit Book Award, Haiku Society of America.

         copyright ©2010 Alan Pizzarelli

]]> http://alanpizzarelli.com/city-beat/feed/ 0 Scrapbook: More of the Hoboken Haiku Gang http://alanpizzarelli.com/scrapbook-hoboken-haiku-gang/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=scrapbook-hoboken-haiku-gang http://alanpizzarelli.com/scrapbook-hoboken-haiku-gang/#comments Sat, 30 Jul 2011 21:55:29 +0000 Admin http://alanpizzarelli.com/?p=679 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 Kennedy

 

the score keeper
peeks out of the scoreboard
spring rain

Alan Pizzarelli

 

summer afternoon
the long fly ball to center field
takes its time

Cor van den Heuvel

1.20.10ElysianFieldsMarkerByLuigiNovi

A historical marker at the intersection of 14th Street and Washington Street in Hoboken, New Jersey, the former location of Elysian Fields, where the first recorded game of baseball took place. Photo by Luigi Novi.

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From left to right Alan Pizzarelli, Cor ven den Huevel, Emiko Miyashita

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