Clark Strand: The Way of Haiku: From Pathos to Play (Part 2 of 9)

Clark Strand, author of Seeds from a Birch Tree: Writing Haiku and the Spiritual Journey, introduces us to the practice of writing haiku. Haiku, Clark explains, is a communal practice, sometimes humorous, often sorrowful, and traditionally grounded in the natural world. While some haiku masters did write in solitary mountain retreats, even the most reclusive of them tended to be involved in haiku communities. Clark discusses the call and response approach to writing haiku in which one poet presents an opening verse and another poet responds with a verse that could be humorous, argumentative, or even erotic. Clark gives us the opportunity to experience this communal approach to poetry as he reads and analyzes numerous haiku submitted by participants in The Way of Haiku: From Pathos to Play program. Part 1 of this series is episode #1952, titled Awakening Through Haiku with speaker Natalie Goldberg. To access the resources page for this program, please sign up by clicking here. For Program/Series description and to access the entire series, please click on the link below: Upaya Podcast Series: Dogen: The Way of Haiku: From Pathos to Play 2022