In this episode Donna Beaver and Alan Pizzarelli discuss the distinction between the poetic forms of Haiku and Senryu, the origins of Senryu in Japan, and its rediscovery and recognition as a poetic form in English literature.

Credit for choral arrangements of Alan Pizzarelli's Senryu:

"the fat lady" Performed by The Marietta Choir

"buzzZ" Commissioned by soprano Maria Knapik-Sztramko for the Guelph Spring Festival, May 19, 1993 Ontario, Canada

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