{"id":7646,"date":"2007-05-22T13:29:09","date_gmt":"2007-05-22T18:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2007\/05\/22\/baseball-haiku-party-today-in-nyc\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:53:48","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:53:48","slug":"baseball-haiku-party-today-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2007\/05\/22\/baseball-haiku-party-today-in-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"baseball haiku party today in nyc"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"baseballDiamond\"\u00a0 If you can hustle down to the National Arts Club<\/a> by\u00a08 PM tonight (May 22, 2007), you can participate in a Celebration of Haiku & Baseball with Billy Collins<\/a>.\u00a0 Here’s how the NAC Events Calendar describes tonight’s presentation:<\/p>\n

Reading & Booksigning<\/p>\n

Former poet laureate of the United States and bestselling author Billy Collins will read from and talk about his recent book of haiku, She Was Just Seventeen. Former president of the Haiku Society of America, Cor van den Heuvel, will then read and discuss haiku from his new book Baseball Haiku (co-edited with Nanae Tamura), and three of the featured poets in the book\u2014Alan Pizzarelli, Ed Markowski, and Brenda Gannam\u2014will read their baseball haiku<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"BaseballHaikuCover\"\u00a0We’ve been sharing\u00a0poems from Baseball Haiku<\/font><\/em><\/a> (Cor van den Heuvel and Nanae Tamura, eds., W.W. Norton<\/font><\/a> Press, April 1, 2007) over the past couple of months\u00a0(see here<\/font><\/a>, there<\/font><\/a>, here<\/font><\/a>).\u00a0 f\/k\/a<\/em> is proud to have so many of its Honored Guests featured in a volume of “The best haiku ever written about the game.”\u00a0 We’re especially proud that over 20 of the 200 poems were penned by “our own” Ed Markowski.\u00a0 dagosan<\/em> and haikuEsq<\/em> would love to be at NAC this evening to hear Ed read a selection of his poetry.\u00a0\u00a0 Here are a few:<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

April rain
\nmy grandson practices
\nhis infield chatter<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

late innings\u00a0\u00a0\"infielderG\"\u00a0
\nthe shortstop backpedals
\ninto fireflies<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

bases loaded
\nthe rookie pitcher
\nblows a bubble<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

spring training . . .
\nflamingoes graze
\non the mansion lawn<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

winter reverie
\nthe faint scent of bubblegum
\non an old baseball card<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026. by\u00a0ed markowski<\/font><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"NHDavidAtBat1953s\"\u00a0larger<\/a>: haiga, MagnaPoets<\/em>, April 11, 2007<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

sacrifice fly —
\nmarkowski’s
\non third<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

poem: David Giacalone
\nphoto: Mama G.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n
\n
squinting to see him —<\/div>\n
\n
\n
\n
another generation<\/div>\n
sent to right field<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

……….. by David Giacalone, Baseball Haiku<\/a> &\u00a0Roadrunner Haiku Journal<\/a><\/font><\/em> (V:4, Nov. 2005<\/font>)<\/font><\/p>\n

update<\/strong><\/em> (May 23, 2007): The newest edition of Simply Haiku<\/em> (Vol. 5:2, Summer 2007) has a review<\/a> of Baseball Haiku<\/em>, by professor of English, and poet-editor Johnye Strickland<\/a>.\u00a0 The same issue features the baseball senryu<\/a> of Cor van den Heuvel, with 7 poems from Baseball Haiku<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 If you can hustle down to the National Arts Club by\u00a08 PM tonight (May 22, 2007), you can participate in a Celebration of Haiku & Baseball with Billy Collins.\u00a0 Here’s how the NAC Events Calendar describes tonight’s presentation: Reading & Booksigning Former poet laureate of the United States and bestselling author Billy Collins will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-1Zk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12536,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7646\/revisions\/12536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}