Alan Pizzarelli

Alan Pizzarelli

Alan Pizzarelli at Baseball Haiku reading at
Chautauqua Institution’s Hall of Philosophy, New York, 2008.
Born Alan Pizzarelli
(1950-01-12) January 12, 1950
Newark, New Jersey
Occupation Poet, songwriter, musician
Genre Haiku, senryū

Alan Pizzarelli (born 1950) is an American poet, songwriter, and musician. He was born of an Italian-American family in Newark, New Jersey, and raised in the first ward’s Little Italy.

Pizzarelli performs music under the name BoneYard, "The Poet Ghoul", as well as "BoneYard & the Elegant Skulls"

Poetry

Pizzarelli has performed numerous poetry readings and has taught poetry workshops in the US and internationally, including the International School of Lausanne, Switzerland, The Nick Virgilio Haiku Association in Camden, New Jersey, and The Newark Museum. From 2005 until 2009 he was senryū editor for the online poetry journal, Simply Haiku.[1] He is co-producer and co-host of the podcast, Haiku Chronicles.

Tom Lynch writes of the following Pizzarelli haiku:

twilight
staples rust
in the telephone pole

"This last poem is as profound and literal an evocation of sabi, the incessant rusting of existence wrought by time, as exists in Western haiku."[2]

Works

Books

Pizzarelli is the author of 12 books of haiku and related poems including:

Anthologies

Pizzarelli's poetry has appeared in many anthologies and books including:

Pizzarelli was a consultant for Jack Kerouac’s Book of Haikus, edited by Regina Weinreich (Penguin Poets, 2003)

Periodicals

Pizzarelli's poems and essays have appeared in numerous publications, such as:

Music albums

Electronic media

Pizzarelli has been featured on podcasts, radio, video and film:

References

  1. Pizzarelli's bio in Simply Haiku Winter 2009.
  2. Tom Lynch. A path toward nature: Haiku's Aesthetics of Awareness, in Patrick D. Murphy, Terry Gifford, Katsunori Yamazato, Literature of nature: an international sourcebook. Taylor & Francis, 1998 ISBN 978-1-57958-010-0 p122
  3. Reprint ~ Modern Senryu, by Alan Pizzarelli, Simply Haiku, Summer 2005, vol 3 no 2.
  4. The Serious Side of Senryu, edited by Alan Pizzarelli, Simply Haiku, Autumn 2006, vol 4 no 3.
  5. Poetry in Slo-Mo by Holly Brubach, New York Times, March 11, 2007.

External links

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