Baseball Haiku

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The editors thank the following poets, magazines, and publishers for permission to print these poems:

(Note: Every effort has been made to contact copyright holders; the editors would be pleased to hear from any copyright holders not acknowledged below. The copyright for previously unpublished poems reverts to the authors of the poems. The poems of Masaoka Shiki, Kawahigashi Hekigot, and Ozawa Seiyshi are according to the Berne Convention no longer protected by copyright, but the Japanese sources for the poems are included here. Japanese names are listed in the Japanese manner, family name first.)

Tom Clausen: “in the shoe box” from Bases Loaded, a renga chapbook by Tom Clausen and Michael Ketchek (no date & no publisher), copyright © by Tom Clausen; all other poems (four) previously unpublished; by permission of the author.

Gerard John Conforti: “with a full count” from Past Time, Red Moon Press, Winchester, Virginia, copyright © 1999 by Gerard John Conforti; all other poems (four) previously unpublished; by permission of the author.

Raffael de Gruttola: “lost in the lights” from Past Time, Red Moon Press, Winchester, Virginia, copyright © 1999 by Raffael de Gruttola; all other poems (three) previously unpublished; by permission of the author.

David Elliott: “Shielding his eyes” from Modern Haiku vol. 22, no. 2, copyright © 1991 by David Elliott; “Empty bleachers” from Raw Nervz vol. 1, no. 3, copyright © 1994 by David Elliott; “Night game” from Haiku World: An International Poetry Almanac, William J. Higginson, ed., Kodansha, Tokyo, copyright © 1996 by David Elliott; all other poems (two) previously unpublished; by permission of the author.

Michael Fessler: “August heat” from Past Time, Red Moon Press, Winchester, Virginia, copyright © 1999 by Michael Fessler; “dust storm trick” from bottle rockets (2003), copyright © 2003 by Michael Fessler; “diving catch” from Modern Haiku (1998), copyright © 1998 by Michael Fessler; “change of pitchers” from bottle rockets (2002), copyright © 2002 by Michael Fessler; “bottom of the ninth” from Fan magazine, “Special Baseball Haiku Issue” (1998), copyright © 1998 by Michael Fessler; by permisssion of the author.

Sylvia Forges-Ryan: “waiting to bat” and “rained out” from Fan magazine, “Special Baseball Haiku Issue” (1998), copyright © 1998 by Sylvia Forges-Ryan; “sandlot players” previously unpublished; by permission of the author.

Brenda Gannam: all nine poems previously unpublished; by permission of the author.

David Giacalone: “squinting to see him” from Roadrunner Haiku Journal, vol. 5, no. 4, November 2005; “law office picnic” previously unpublished; by permission of the author.

Arthur “Bud” Goodrich: all seven poems from Rhubarb! The Collected Senryu and Haiku of Bud Goodrich, Deep North Press, Evanston, Illinois, copyright © 2003 by Arthur Goodrich; by permission of the author.

Lee Gurga: “rumble of thunder” from Too Busy for Spring, 1999 HNA Anthology, edited by Michael Dylan Welch and Lee Gurga, Press Here, Foster City, California, copyright © 1999 by Lee Gurga; all other poems (four) previously unpublished; by permission of the author.

Imai Sei: “the baseball stadium’s” from Hokugen (Northern Limit), Bokuyosha, Tokyo, copyright © 1984 by Imai Sei; all other poems (eight) from Tanima no Kagu (The Valley’s Furniture), Kadakawa Shoten, Tokyo, copyright © 2000 by Imai Sei; by permission of the author.

Jim Kacian: “calm evening” from Past Time, Red Moon Press, Winchester, Virginia, copyright © 1999 by Jim Kacian; “October revival” from the Piedmont Literary Review (circa 1992) © Jim Kacian; all other poems (three) previously unpublished; by permission of the author.

Kawahigashi Hekigot: “while playing ball” from Hekigot Zen Kush (Hekigot’s Complete Haiku Collection), Kurita Yasushi, ed., Kagyusha, Tokyo 1992.

Jack Kerouac: all three poems (two in the American Baseball Haiku section & one on “football” quoted in the introduction) from Book of Haikus by Jack Kerouac, edited by Regina Weinreich, copyright © 2003 by the Estate of Stella Kerouac, John Sampas, Literary Representative. Used by permission of Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

Michael Ketchek: “forsythia” from South by Southeast, vol. 6, no. 3, copyright © 1999 by Michael Ketchek; “summer night radio” from bottle rockets, vol. 5, no. 2, copyright © 2003 by Michael Ketchek; “dog days of summer” from Modern Haiku, vol. 34, no. 1, copyright © 2003 by Michael Ketchek; all other poems (two) previously unpublished; by permission of the author.

Ed Markowski: “winter reverie” and “sides chosen” from bottle rockets, vol. 7, no. 1, 2005, copyright © 2005 by Ed Markowski; “afternoon heat” from Elysian Fields Baseball Quarterly, fall 2003, copyright © by 2003 by Ed Markowski; “summer loneliness” from Pop-Up, tribe press, Greenfield, Massachusetts, copyright © 2004 by Ed Markowski; “distant thunder” and “rainy night” from Games (a pawEpress booklet, Canada), copyright © 2004 by Ed Markowski; “bases loaded” from Haiku Sun, issue 10, copyright © 2004 by Ed Markowski; “late september” from Acorn, copyright © 2005 by Ed Markowski; all other poems (thirteen) previously unpublished; by permission of the author.

Masaoka Shiki: all nine poems from Shiki Zensh (The Complete Works of Shiki), Masaoka Chuuzaburoo, et al., eds., Kodansha, Tokyo 1975–1978.

Dan McCullough: “entering” from Frogpond, vol. 27, no. 3, copyright © 2004 by Dan McCullough; “darkening clouds” from Frogpond, vol. 25, no. 2, copyright © 2002 by Dan McCullough; “shooting star” from Modern Haiku, vol. 35, no. 1, copyright © 2004 by Dan McCullough; all other poems (six) previously unpublished; by permisssion of the author.

Mizuhara Shshi: “night game” from Banka (Late Flowers); “a night game’s” from Ryosh (Travel Tedium); “[Five] Scenes at Jingu Baseball Stadium” from Shshi Kush (Shshi’s Collected Haiku); all copyright © Mizuhara Shshi; by permission of Mizuhara Haruo.

Ozawa Seiyshi: “the autumn sky” from the Gendai Haiku Sensh (Modern Haiku Anthology), 1941.

Tom Painting: “all day rain” and “bases loaded” from piano practice, Bottle Rockets Press, Wethersfield, Connecticut, copyright © 2004 by Tom Painting; “the foul ball lands” from Modern Haiku, vol. 35, no. 2, copyright © 2004 by Tom Painting; by permission of the author.

Alan Pizzarelli: “at the produce stand,” “the score keeper,” and “saturday afternoon” from The Windswept Corner, Bottle Rockets Press, Wethersfield, Connecticut, copyright © 2005 by Alan Pizzarelli; “at shortstop” from Past Time, Red Moon Press, Winchester, Virginia, Copyright © 1999 by Alan Pizzarelli; “leaning for the sign” and “leaving the game” previously unpublished; all other poems (five) from Baseball Poems, a self-published folded-broadside, copyright © 1988 by Alan Pizzarelli; by permisssion of the author.

Edward J. Rielly: “the boy not chosen” from Past Time, Red Moon Press, Winchester, Virginia, copyright © 1999 by Edward J. Rielly; “spring melt” from Modern Haiku, vol. 32, no. 2, copyright © 2001 by Edward J. Rielly; “April shower” from bottle rockets, vol. 2, no. 2, copyright © 2001 by Edward J. Rielly; all other poems (two) previously unpublished; by permission of the author.

Chad Lee Robinson: “long summer day” from Acorn, no. 14, copyright © 2005 by Chad Lee Robinson; “dusk” from Frogpond, vol. 27, no. 3, copyright © 2004 by Chad Lee Robinson; by permission of the author.

Suzuki Murio: “My legs are chilly” from Tanima no Hata (A Flag in the Valley), Kaze Hakkosho, Kanazawa City, copyright © 1955 by Suzuki Murio; “Over” from Akury (Apollyon, or Angel of Hell), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, copyright © 1985 by Suzuki Murio; by permission of Atsuko Miyagawa (Suzuki Murio’s daughter).

George Swede: “empty baseball field” and “crack of the bat” from Almost Unseen, Brooks Books, Decatur, Illinois, copyright © 2000 by George Swede; “village ball game” from As Far As The Sea Can Eye, York Publishing, Toronto, Canada, copyright © 1979 by George Swede; by permission of the author.

Cor van den Heuvel: “perfect game, end of seven” and “the catcher cocks his arm” are previously unpublished; “stolen base” from Dim Sum magazine, copyright © 2005 by Cor van den Heuvel; “cold day” from Reeds magazine, copyright © 2005 by Cor van den Heuvel; “At the Ballpark” (four poems) from Modern Haiku, vol. 34, no. 2, copyright © 2003 by Cor van den Heuvel; all other poems (twenty-eight) from Play Ball, Red Moon Press, Winchester, Virginia, copyright © 1999 by Cor van den Heuvel; by permission of the author.

Michael Dylan Welch: “first drops of rain” from Mayfly, no. 18, October, 1994; “base hit” previously unpublished; by permission of the author.

Arizona Zipper: “Hopping over the mound” from A Pale Leaf, copyright © 1981 by Arizona Zipper; “A harvest moon” from Mainichi Daily News, Oct. 9, 1988, copyright © 1988 by Arizona Zipper; “Bottom of the ninth” from Modern Haiku, vol. XXI, no. 3, copyright © 1990 by Arizona Zipper; by permission of the author.