{"id":7789,"date":"2007-07-11T12:16:34","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T17:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2007\/07\/11\/of-ash-and-all-stars\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:53:46","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:53:46","slug":"of-ash-and-all-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2007\/07\/11\/of-ash-and-all-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"of ash and All-Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I don’t know if Ichiro Suzuki is a haiku fan, but I’m sure he inspired a poem or two at last night’s MLB All-Star Game — especially with his inside the park home run. (“Ichiro’s magic gives AL home field again<\/a>, ” CBS Sports Line<\/em>, July 11, 2007). Now that the controversial selection of Barry Bonds for the All-Star squad is behind us (see USAToday<\/a><\/em>), the f\/k\/a<\/em> Gang wants to remind you of the roster of haijin all-stars on our Baseball Haiku page<\/a>, and in this year’s MVP anthology of sports poetry, Baseball Haiku<\/em><\/a> (Cor van den Heuvel and Nanae Tamura, eds., W.W. Norton<\/a> Press, April 2007).<\/p>\n

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Seattle sunset
\nIchiro sends one
\ntoward the Sea of Japan<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

fireflies\u2026
\nthe smallest boy hits
\nthe game winning homer<\/p>\n

……………………………………. by ed markowski, The Old BallGame<\/em> (April 2006)<\/p>\n

\"BaseballHaikuCover\" Poems from nine <\/em><\/em>of our Honored Guest Poets<\/a> were selected to appear with “the best haiku ever written about the game” in Baseball Haiku<\/em><\/a> : randy brooks, tom clausen, lee gurga, jim kacian, ed markowski, tom painting, john stevenson, george swede, michael dylan welch. And, dagosan<\/a><\/em> even got in as bat boy. You can find poems from the Baseball Haiku<\/em> volume in several of our prior posts: e.g<\/em>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and there<\/a>, plus here<\/a>; and we previewed the book back in January, here<\/a>).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n


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called third strike\u2013
\nthe slow roll of the ball
\nback to the mound<\/p>\n

seventh inning stretch —
\ndust from dragging the bases
\nhangs in the air<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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……………………………………. by jim kacian from Baseball Haiku <\/em>(2007)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"at Meanwhile, although it may not be as big a deal as Pope Benedict vs. The Non-Catholics<\/em> (Chicago Sun-Times,” Catholicism is the only true church, Vatican declares<\/a>,” July 11, 2007), the New York Times<\/em> reports today on the competition between baseball bats made of ash and those made of maple, as well as the great threat posed by a killer beetle and warmer climate to ash trees, in “Balmy Weather May Bench a Baseball Staple<\/a>” (July 11, 2007). Naturally, this calls for an aggregation of topically relevant haiku and senryu by our Honored Guests.<\/p>\n

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red maple
\nagainst the white wall
\nof the fire station<\/p>\n

………….. by Alice Frampton, at World Haiku Association website<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

new shoots
\non the big-leaf maple\u2014
\nhow blue the sky, how blue<\/p>\n

………….. by michael dylan welch from Thornewood Poems<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

kissing\u2026
\na woodpecker works
\nthe sugar maple<\/p>\n

……………………………… ed markowski – from Bottle Rockets<\/em> # 11 \"infielderG\"<\/p>\n

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september wind
\nash leaves follow
\na swallow south<\/p>\n

………………………………… by matt morden<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

light wind
\na maple armada
\nleaves the shore<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026. by Hilary Tann – Frogpond<\/em> XXX:1<\/p>\n

fading rainbow
\na maple leaf swirls
\ndown the drain<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"umpireS\" <\/font><\/font><\/span><\/span>………….. by laryalee fraser <\/font><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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it brightens
\nthrough the silver maple . . .
\ncloudy afternoon<\/p>\n

………………… by andrew riutta – Full Moon Magazine<\/em> (2005)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

last day of school
\nthe crack of a baseball bat
\noutside the open window<\/p>\n

……………… by Randy Brooks, from School\u2019s Out <\/em>(Press Here, 1999)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

crack of the bat
\nthe outfielder circles under
\nthe full moon<\/p>\n

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The beetle I righted
\nflies straight into
\na cobweb<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 by George Swede – from Almost Unseen<\/em>
\n“crack of the bat” – Baseball Haiku<\/em> (2007)<\/p>\n

first red leaves
\ni swing late
\non a change-up<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

………….. by ed markowski<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t know if Ichiro Suzuki is a haiku fan, but I’m sure he inspired a poem or two at last night’s MLB All-Star Game — especially with his inside the park home run. (“Ichiro’s magic gives AL home field again, ” CBS Sports Line, July 11, 2007). Now that the controversial selection of Barry […]<\/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":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haiku-or-senryu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-21D","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7789","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=7789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12512,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7789\/revisions\/12512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}