THF Interviews: Gayle Bull
Gayle Bull was there when American Haiku was just getting started . . .
2014 THF Fundraiser Release: An Interview with Tom Clausen
Today's new release is an interview with beloved haiku poet Tom Clausen, filmed at Mann Library on the campus of Cornell University in 2012. https://youtu.be/6j5WUFWfcGo Besides his work as a poet, Tom created the Mann Library Online Poetry…
2013 THF Fundraiser Release: THF Interview: Lenard D. Moore
Today's new release is an interview with haiku and long poet, editor and educator Lenard D. Moore, filmed in his native state of North Carolina in 2013. https://youtu.be/1nJz_8Dbu7g In 2008, Lenard became the first Southerner and the first African American…
2013 THF Fundraiser Release: THF Interview: Beverley George
Today's new release is an interview with haiku and tanka poet, editor, publisher and organizer Beverley George, filmed in New Zealand at the Aotearoa Haiku Festival in 2012. https://youtu.be/2hjDDaLeRiI Beverley won the W.B. Yeats Poetry Prize for Australia and New…
THF Interview with Catherine Mair, founder of the Haiku Pathway
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…
The Haiku Foundation Interviews: Sandra Simpson
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…
The Haiku Foundation Interviews: Francine Banwarth
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…
The Haiku Foundation Interviews: Ernest Berry
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…
The Haiku Foundation Interviews: Don Eulert
https://youtu.be/A1v5NNppL98 Don Eulert was co-founder, with James Bull, of the first dedicated English-language haiku journal, American Haiku, in 1963. Here he discusses those early days of journal publishing, and how he uses haiku to inform his current activities. Jim Kacian…
The Haiku Foundation Interviews: Sandra Simpson
https://youtu.be/5JdOi8Pcp0A Sandra Simpson is a leading voice in New Zealand haiku who 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…