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Every turn of the season ELYSEUM is joined by our good friend, Haiku master Tazuo Yamaguchi. This Sunday evening at 6:45 pm in the Harbin Theater, Tazuo will facilitate a special presentation. This screening event begins with contextual remarks and concludes with a Q&A discussion with Tazuo.
Tazuo Yamaguchi has earned a national reputation as a poet, touring performer, and filmmaker for over a full decade through his solo tours, his films, his long list of collaborations with some of the nation’s finest poets and artists, two national head to head haiku championships (1996 & 2004), and his “provocative” poetry workouts and workshops that guide the voices of youth to the elders. Yamaguchi is a master storyteller, poet and spoken word craftsman with a deep heritage in Shigin Poetry (poet, chanter, and storytellers of the royal court of Japan.) He is the creator of the first film ever made about English-language haiku entitled Haiku: The Art of The Short Poem, which he generously shares with us for our next special session of ELYSUEM.
In August 2007 Tazuo attended the Haiku North America conference, where he filmed over 50 hours of interviews and events with contemporary haiku poets, concluding with the HNA head-to-head haiku competition. Honing this experience down into a feature length documentary and book, he shares his own awesome journey with us. As Taz writes in the introduction to this book/DVD: "I created Haiku: The Art of the Short Poem to be a contemporary compass in which to navigate the vast, but concise, universe of haiku... Each poet brought me their wealth of passion, information and knowledge, and timeless insights from their snowball stash they had collected through their life’s sleigh ride of love and interest in haiku."
Good friend visiting
bearing the gift of Haiku
-sharing our One Breath.
ELYSEUM: a Paradise for Heroes and Writers.
Tazuo Yamaguchi has earned a national reputation as a poet, touring performer, and filmmaker for over a full decade through his solo tours, his films, his long list of collaborations with some of the nation’s finest poets and artists, two national head to head haiku championships (1996 & 2004), and his “provocative” poetry workouts and workshops that guide the voices of youth to the elders. Yamaguchi is a master storyteller, poet and spoken word craftsman with a deep heritage in Shigin Poetry (poet, chanter, and storytellers of the royal court of Japan.) He is the creator of the first film ever made about English-language haiku entitled Haiku: The Art of The Short Poem, which he generously shares with us for our next special session of ELYSUEM.
In August 2007 Tazuo attended the Haiku North America conference, where he filmed over 50 hours of interviews and events with contemporary haiku poets, concluding with the HNA head-to-head haiku competition. Honing this experience down into a feature length documentary and book, he shares his own awesome journey with us. As Taz writes in the introduction to this book/DVD: "I created Haiku: The Art of the Short Poem to be a contemporary compass in which to navigate the vast, but concise, universe of haiku... Each poet brought me their wealth of passion, information and knowledge, and timeless insights from their snowball stash they had collected through their life’s sleigh ride of love and interest in haiku."
Good friend visiting
bearing the gift of Haiku
-sharing our One Breath.
ELYSEUM: a Paradise for Heroes and Writers.
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