Writers' Morning Out - Japanese Poetry with Alan Summers
About This Event
Join us as Alan Summers, teaches about the haiku, haibun, and tanka forms of Japanese poetry, which emphasize brevity, nature, and sensory imagery. We are honored (and a bit star-struck) to have Alan speak with us on World Poetry Day!
Alan Summers is a Japan Times award-winning writer; founder, Call of the Page; and editor of The Pan Haiku Review.
His round-the-clock profession is keeping in touch with latest developments within the canon of haikai and tanka works. He’s widely known as a teacher, editor, and advocate for haiku literature in English, and has ten collections under his belt including recently modŏ – new & selected one-line haiku, and by ink of crow (a corvus of haiku, and haibun etc…).
On another note it’s been found out that he is related to many incredible novelists including Louisa May Alcott, famous for her novel Little Women (1868) and detective fiction 1865 thriller V.V., aka Plots and Counterplots. a recent discovery is his family connection to Thomas Pynchon, author of V.(1963) plus many darkly comic detective novels. There is no V. in his own name though he may have to write a book called Triple V!
Back to haiku, he was filmed by NHK TV of Japan for a short feature:
Alan’s Haiku Journey: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VS36AGVI6s
Call of the Page:
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