Poetry
experiments in visual poetry
As co-producer and co-host of the podcast Haiku Chronicles, Donna Beaver experiments in visual poetry, Yéil (Raven) is her Tlingit oratory through haiku and other short poems honoring artist, friend, and Chilkat weaver, Clarissa Rizal, who joined our Alaska Native ancestors in December 2016. Haiku Chronicles produces both audio and video episodes.
Haiku Chronicles is a free non-profit educational podcast devoted to the art of haiku and its related poetic forms.
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Rain Forest Poems
ARTIST BOOK: Handmade book of haiku, senryu, and tanka poems with art and photography.
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Tricyles
POEM: Winner of Alaska Native Writers Award for Literature 1st Place (poetry) and published in Explorations 2000.
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Haiga
Modern Haiga: Art or photography combined with a short poem, typically a haiku, senryu, or tanka. — COMING SOON!
BROADSIDES
POETRY BROADSIDES: Handmade collectible poetry broadsides in cyanotype, silkscreen and letterpress.
Cyanotype (right) is one of the oldest photographic techniques that produce a print of a classic blue color—a process invented in 1842 by the astronomer and chemist Sir John Herschel. The process may have been invented even earlier.
I recently returned to this alternative photographic process, a favorite of mine when I was a photography student in college. During that time, I created negatives in a darkroom; today, I create negatives digitally.
BROADSIDE: Alternative photographic process known as Cyanotype on watercolor paper.