markowski: in your ear & “at the ballgame”
What a treat. Joe Harnett, longtime radio host of “The Old BallGame“,
has a website by that name that is constantly refreshed with new
lore and literature about baseball — with audio versions of many fine
short stories, comic routines, managerial rants and more. This week,
he added readings of 20 baseball-related poems by our Honored Guest
buddy ed markowski.
Joe says:
“To my ear, there is something about the Haiku and baseball
that seems to fit so very well. Listen and maybe you’ll agree.
I picked out about 20 that I loved and they are here just for you.”
Concur.
Most of the selections already appear on our f/k/a Baseball Haiku page.
But hearing them so well rendered orally adds a great new dimension. (The
only thing we’d do differently is to leave out the Asian sounds — Ed’s poetry
and the game sounds are All-American.)
You can click directly to hear Cut One and Cut Two (of the four original cuts).
“tinyredcheck” Here are three winners from ed that I had never seen
before, which Joe presents at The Old Ballgame:
April rain
my grandson practices
his infield chatter
Seattle sunset
Ichiro sends one
toward the Sea of Japanfirst baseman’s autograph
my grandson says,
“i’m the luckiest kid in the world”ed markowski, The Old BallGame (April 2006)
“girlsliding”
