Today we have a new THF Reports video for you. The New Orleans Haiku Society held a reading to celebrate National Haiku Poetry Day 2012 last April. https://youtu.be/KUTsuN4lE8U The event was organized by David Lanoue, current president of the Haiku…
The Haiku Foundation truly enters into a new role of responsibility with the acquisition of the personal library, manuscripts, correspondence, awards and memorabilia of haiku pioneer Cor van den Heuvel. Part of the mission of the Foundation is to archive…
https://youtu.be/AB5HB5kwM4M The second of two recent video haiga by Jim Kacian utilizing the music of Daniel Lanois. This one, "radium," makes use of "Sketches," from the album Belladonna.
https://youtu.be/-pya5HGDpRI Jim Kacian has created two video haiga to the eclectic and compelling music of Daniel Lanois. This first, "feverish," features "Two Worlds," from the album Belladonna.
Check out the celebration of NHPD in the nation's capital, and then read about the way other people around the country enjoyed the event.
https://youtu.be/fh08p3vGifo The Haiku Foundation sponsors, supports and creates reading opportunities for haiku poets around the world. Here Jerome Cushman offers American Sign Language versions of classical Japanese and English-language haiku, as well as telling something of his involvement with haiku…
https://youtu.be/ilVz3uMfX-I Catherine Mair is a woman with a vision. She is almost single-handedly responsible for the creation of the Haiku Pathway in Katikati, New Zealand, arguably the most important physical monument to English-language haiku in the world. Here she discourses…
https://youtu.be/4ThRQW8woXw The Haiku Foundation Lecture Series features haiku experts from around the world discussing a range of topics of interest to the haiku world. David Cobb presented this discussion of the use of place names in haiku 15 September 2010…
https://youtu.be/ZwfPxoxYK1w This video haiga is by Ron Moss, haiku poet and visual artist from Tasmania. The music is "White Coplanar" by Guillermo Gregorio, as performed by the Guillermo Gregorio Ensemble. Haiga is a combination of image(s) and haiku. Video haiga…
https://youtu.be/5JdOi8Pcp0A Sandra Simpson is a leading voice in New Zealand haiku, serves on the committee of the Katikati Haiku Pathway. She recently co-organized the Aotearoa Haiku Festival 2012 in her hometown of Tauranga. Jim Kacian interviewed Simpson at the Aotearoa…
https://youtu.be/dR2-iuejlGo This video haiga is a collaboration: haiku by Dietmar Tauchner; visuals by Tauchner and F. Berner; video editing by Florian Gintenreiter. English translation of the haiku: death makes life perfect Haiga is a combination of image(s) and haiku. Video…
https://youtu.be/Cv0pVrHYs5E The Haiku Foundation sponsors, supports and creates reading opportunities for haiku poets around the world. Here Charles Trumbull, editor of Modern Haiku, offers a sample of his work, some recent and some previously published. Recorded at The Cradle of…
https://youtu.be/AzEU90RBVUE This video haiga is by Jim Kacian, founder of Red Moon Press and The Haiku Foundation. It was shot on the island of Viti Levu in the Republic of Fiji. The selected music is the first movement of the…
https://youtu.be/fnNKnydlw5k This video haiga is a collaboration: haiku by Dietmar Tauchner; visuals by Tauchner and F. Berner; video editing by Florian Gintenreiter. English translation of the haiku: seriously life is just a joke Haiga is a combination of image(s) and…
https://youtu.be/qVdyf_Ml6gM Francine Banwarth, current editor of Frogpond (the international journal of the Haiku Society of America) discusses how she came to haiku, and what it has meant to her life. Jim Kacian interviewed Banwarth at The Cradle of American Haiku…
https://youtu.be/AB5HB5kwM4M This video haiga is by Jim Kacian, founder of Red Moon Press and The Haiku Foundation. The music is "sketches," written and performed by Daniel Lanois. Haiga is a combination of image(s) and haiku. Video haiga is the latest…
https://youtu.be/84rH8s8IHww The Haiku Foundation sponsors, supports and creates reading opportunities for haiku poets around the world. Here Robert Spiess, longtime editor of Modern Haiku, reads in an archival presentation of his haiku and senryu. This video is part of The…
https://youtu.be/ZwfPxoxYK1w This video haiga is by Ron Moss, haiku poet and visual artist from Tasmania. The music is "White Coplanar" by Guillermo Gregorio, as performed by the Guillermo Gregorio Ensemble. Haiga is a combination of image(s) and haiku. Video haiga…
https://youtu.be/aah_ytwzaIg Robert Spiess was erstwhile editor of Modern Haiku, the flagship journal for English-language haiku. This recording gives his views on what haiku is, and is not. This video is part of The Haiku Foundation Video Archive.
https://youtu.be/xTJtQPGOYLw Ernest Berry is one of the leading haiku poets in New Zealand. He talks about his discovery of haiku, and what it has meant to his life. Jim Kacian interviewed Berry at his home in Picton, New Zealand, on…