Honorary Curator Cor van den Heuvel
Cor van den Heuvel
Honorary Curator, 1999-2000
Introduction
Cor van den Heuvel began writing haiku in a small cottage by the Webhannet River in Wells Beach, Maine, in 1959, after discovering the genre the year before in San Francisco during that city's celebrated poetry renaissance.
He published his first chapbook of haiku in 1961 and over the years has published his haiku and senryu regularly in the major English-language haiku journals. A past president (1978) of the Haiku Society of America, his honors include three Merit Book Awards from the society, a World Haiku Achievement Award at the World Haiku Festival in London in 2000, and in 2002 the Masaoka Shiki International Haiku Prize in Matsuyama, Japan.
He has edited three editions of The Haiku Anthology, and also coedited Baseball Haiku. His most recent book is A Boy's Seasons: Haibun Memoirs, published by Single Island Press in 2010, about his growing up in Maine and New Hampshire. He was born in Biddeford, Maine in 1931.
Selected Haiku by Cor van den Heuvel
snow
on the saddle-bags
sun in skull
deep snow
the amusement park lit
by a single bulb
the sun goes down
my shovel strikes a spark
from the dark earth
summer afternoon
the long fly ball to center field
takes its time
changing pitchers
the runner on first looks up
at a passing cloud
an empty wheelchair
rolls
in from the waves
a tidepool
in a clam shell
the evening sunlight
a stick goes over the falls at sunset
November evening
the wind from a passing truck
ripples a roadside puddle
end of the line
the conductor starts turning
the seats around
the shadow in the folded napkin
city street
the darkness inside
the snow-covered cars
lingering snow
the game of catch continues
into evening
Books by Cor van den Heuvel
van den Heuvel, Cor, and Alan Pizzarelli, editors. American Haiku: A Selection from Volume 5 (1967). Haiku Canada, 1998.
van den Heuvel, Cor. A Bag of Marbles: 3 Jazz Chants. New York: Chant Press, 1962.
van den Heuvel, Cor. Bang! You're Dead. New York: Chant Press, 1966.
van den Heuvel, Cor, and Nanae Tamura, editors. Baseball Haiku: American and Japanese Haiku and Senryu on Baseball. New York: Norton, 2007.
van den Heuvel, Cor. A Boy's Seasons: Haibun Memoirs. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Single Island Press, 2010.
van den Heuvel, Cor. Dark. New York: Chant Press, 1982.
van den Heuvel, Cor. E07: or (Christ Should Have Carried a Pearl-Handled Revolver). New York: Chant Press, 1964.
van den Heuvel, Cor. The Geese Have Gone. Pointe Claire, Quebec: King's Road Press, 1992.
van den Heuvel, Cor, editor. The Haiku Anthology: English Language Haiku by Contemporary American and Canadian Poets. Garden City, New York: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1974.
van den Heuvel, Cor, editor. The Haiku Anthology: Haiku and Senryu in English. New York: Simon & Schuster Touchstone, Revised [2nd] edition, 1986, 1991.
van den Heuvel, Cor, editor. The Haiku Anthology: Haiku and Senryu in English. New York: Norton, expanded [3rd] edition, 1999.
van den Heuvel, Cor, and Alan Pizzarelli. Haiku Cowboys. Garfield, New Jersey: Island Chant Books, 2003.
van den Heuvel, Cor, and Jim Kacian, editors. Past Time. Winchester, Virginia: Red Moon Press, 2000.
van den Heuvel, Cor. Play Ball. Winchester, Virginia: Red Moon Press, 1999.
van den Heuvel, Cor. Puddles. New York: Chant Press, 1990.
van den Heuvel, Cor. Sun in Skull. New York: Chant Press, 1961.
van den Heuvel, Cor. Water in a Stone Depression. New York: Chant Press, 1969.
van den Heuvel, Cor. The Window-Washer's Pail. New York: Chant Press, 1963.
Web Links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cor_van_den_Heuvel
http://terebess.hu/english/usa/heuvel.html
http://www.amazon.com/Cor-van-den-Heuvel/e/B001IOFH78
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cor-van-den-Heuvel/111974755486716
http://www.haiku-hia.com/snk_HEUVEL_en.html
http://www.brooksbookshaiku.com/MillikinHaiku/writerprofiles/CorvandenHeuval.html
