Featured Episode

(revisiting Episode 5,  History of American Haiku Part II, The Beat Poets)

Part II, features a reading and discussion of haiku poetry by Allen Ginsberg; with guest Cor van den Heuvel.

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Donna Beaver and Alan Pizzarelli continue their discussion with guest Cor van den Heuvel on the history of American haiku highlighting the Beat Poets. This episode also features a reading and discussion of haiku poetry by Allen Ginsberg from his lectures at Naropa University.

Credit Information:
Special thanks to Bob Rosenthal, the Allen Ginsberg Project and Naropa University for the haiku segments from Allen Ginsberg’s poetry classes, “On Vividness and Close Observation in Writing” (1982) and “On Writing Poetry” (1984) at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado.

Allen Ginsberg Project: http://www.allenginsberg.org/

Naropa University Archives: http://www.archive.org/details/naropa