Videos
The following assorted videos, mostly on YouTube, are arranged in chronological order, with the most recent first. I also include a few audio links. These links feature my haiku workshops, interviews, readings of haiku and longer poetry, and other poetry-related presentations. +
★ = most recommended (start with these recordings)
Wise Owl Interview (1:18:36)
An interview with me by Neena Singh for The Wise Owl (India); see also a separate print interview at “Tête-à-Tête: Michael Dylan Welch”
★ Holiday Haiku (3:42)
7 December 2022, showing thirty of my haiku in a main-stage installation for the 2022 Redmond Lights festival, projected four times an hour for six hours each night from 1 December 2022 to 4 January 2023 at the Buoyant Pavilion at Downtown Park in Redmond, Washington (see Holiday Haiku)
2022 Virtual Japan Fair (3:00:07)
9 July 2022 live-streamed event, with my announcement of the English-language haiku contest winners that I judged (starting at 2:26:24), followed by Japanese-language results (ending at 2:34:11)
SoulFood Poetry Night (1:31:06)
16 June 2022 reading featuring Rick Lupert and Ellyn Maybe (with me as MC for this monthly series I curate)
Flowers on the Roof of Hell (2:22)
30 April 2022, my recording of a poem broadcast on Poetic Podcast (audio only, starting at the 12:05 mark in Episode 3 on Anchor FM)
★ Moving Mountains (5:41)
28 December 2021, haiku by Michael Dylan Welch and Ron C. Moss with photos by Ron C. Moss and Schumann piano music performed by Steve Hodge
Even in Kyoto: Place Names in Haiku (51:37)
16 October 2021, Japan Writers Club, via Zoom (presentation)
★ Well-Worn Path (5:31)
16 September 2021, seasonally arranged haiku and senryu by twenty poets from Washington State (video created by Michael Dylan Welch)
★ How to Haiku (2:42:48)
23 June 2021, North American Japanese Garden Association (workshop)
Lorine Niedecker’s Exchange for Haiku (24:36; intro at 1:38, my presentation from 1.03:20 to end)
Recorded 10 June 2021, put online July 2021, American Literature Association conference (presentation)
The Weather-Beaten Jizō: Shikoku Pilgrimage Haiku by Shūji Niwano (44:08)
6 June 2021, British Haiku Society annual meeting (presentation)
My part begins with 44:08 remaining in the video
Haiku Targets Workshop (2:25:44)
1 June 2021, Bellevue Japan Fair festival (workshop)
Haiku Poet Podcast (42:34)
12 May 2021, interview presented by Josh Cleveland and his kids (my text interview answers read and discussed) — also available on Spotify
How to Haiku (2:37:11)
17 April 2021, Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival (workshop) +
SoulFood Poetry Night (1:40:28)
18 March 2021 reading featuring the Take a Stand: Art Against Hate anthology (with me as MC for this monthly series I curate)
★ Haiku Seeds (46:48, my segment starts a little after the haiku focus begins at about 27:20, and goes to 42:57)
March 2021 “Bloom” video produced by the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival in the spring of 2021, with my concluding Haiku Seeds presentation to conclude this educational broadcast; see also “Haiku Seeds” for the text of my contribution to this video and also see the VCBF website
HaikuLife 2021 Video (7:58, my segment at 4:04)
4 March 2021, Celebrating Cor van den Heuvel’s 90th birthday for the Haiku Foundation +
Featured Poet (intro at 24:30, my part from 25:22 to 49:48)
11 February 2021, Ghost Town Poetry Night (Zoom reading)
Haiku Targets Workshop (2:57:00; first 90 minutes for presentation)
11 November 2020, Nick Virgilio Haiku Society
★ Your Haiku Archives (53:59)
2 August 2020, American Haiku Archives (Zoom PowerPoint presentation) +
Pandemic Poetry (1:25:17)
14 May 2020, King County Library System (MC for open-mic reading)
How to Haiku (1:30:14)
26 April 2020, Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival (workshop) +
Pico Iyer and the Poetic Art of Going Nowhere (28:21)
8 April 2020, King County Library System (presentation about haiku) +
★ Cascadia Poetry Festival (3:00)
11 May 2019, Anacortes, Washington (“Canticle” poem); my part starts at the 26:19 mark
★ Seven Suns / Seven Moons, with Tanya McDonald (10:38)
15 September 2017, Haiku North America (poetry reading) +
★ Seasoning (2:54)
2017, video by Steve Hodge (with my haiku)
★ In Conversation, with Sheila Bender (28:06; audio only)
20 September 2016, KPTZ radio broadcast (interview on poetry)
★ Street-Guided Meditation (6:01)
September 2016, a short film by Noam Oren that begins with one of my haiku
★ Clover 9 Reading (12:04)
27 September 2015, Village Books, Bellingham, Washington (a mix of longer poems)
Literary Citizenship: Talking Pages (21:19)
17 February 2015, Eastside Writes, Issaquah, Washington (MC, with readers Lori May and Elissa Washuta)
(see the Eastside Writes YouTube video channel for numerous other videos, many of which I appear in)
True Colour Poetry Reading (20:00)
6 December 2014, Redmond City Hall, Redmond Lights Festival (rengay poetry reading) +
Valentine’s Day Haiku (0:10)
August 2012, Seattle, Washington (poem)
★ 2010 Jack Straw Writers Program at the Seattle Central Library (1:34:36; introduced at about the 9:00 minute mark, ending at 16:30)
13 November 2010 audio recording of five American Sentences, “a bird on a sill,” seven neon buddha poems, and “Robert Bly Reads a Haiku”
★ Jack Straw Writers audio blog (about 12 minutes)
2010, Seattle, Washington, featuring a Zen story, a selection of neon buddha poems, American Sentences, and three longer poems: “After Dinner,” “Shoulders,” and “Flowers on the Roof of Hell”
SoulFood Poetry Night (playlist of 23 recordings)
2009 to 2012, Redmond, Washington (MC) +