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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. Visit my YouTube channel. +
★ = most recommended (start with these recordings)
★ We Rise with Our Dreams (2:51)
I created this video, featuring music by John Jarvis and Joe Henry, to celebrate a song I’ve loved for decades since I first heard it in the late 1980s and early 1990s on Bob Beattie’s “Ski World” TV show on ESPN. The full song was extremely hard to find, so I made the video so others could also enjoy it.
★ Haiku Invitational 2024 Winners (1:19)
Video celebrating the winners of the 2024 Haiku Invitational, which I cojudged with Antoinette Cheung and Garry Gay for the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival.
★ Wide Open Sky: 2024 Pulse Haiku (4:44)
My video celebrating the 26 poems I selected for publication every two weeks in 2024 by Pulse—voices from the heart of medicine.
Discover Haiku in San Francisco — 2025 HNA Promotional Video (1:08)
A short video by Tazuo Yamaguchi, produced in July of 2024 to promote the 2025 Haiku North America conference in September of 2025, with my script and voice-over, starting with my poem alluding to a Bashō poem about Kyoto:
fresh sourdough . . .
even in San Francisco
I long for San Francisco
Briar Haus Writes Conversation with Michael Dylan Welch 2024 (32:50)
Becky Parker or Briar Haus Writes interviews Michael Dylan Welch. Conducted on 12 June 2024, posted to YouTube on 12 August 2024.
Porad Haiku Award — 20th Anniversary Retrospective (3:56)
Haiku Northwest’s annual Porad Award, named after its founder, Francine Porad, celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2023. I made this video to showcase all first-place winners from 2004 to 2023, including the names of judges who selected the winning poems.
Haiku Poets of Northern California Featured Reading (15:58)
Featured reader for the summer quarterly Zoom meeting of the Haiku Poets of Northern California on 16 July 2023, reading my “Bluing Twilight” sequence of wildlife encounter haiku, plus haiku from my “Mandolin Summer” trifold. +
7th Annual Tennessee Poets Day, WC-TV, Tennessee (6:55:56)
29 April 2023 video, with my part recorded 26 January 2023 via Zoom. My presentation, including a reading of haiku and longer poems, runs from the 4:45:05 mark to 5:46:36. Broadcast on WC-TV (Williamson County Television) in Tennessee.
“Wordland” poetry program, WUGA radio, Athens, Georgia (59:00)
30 April 2023 audio broadcast of a dozen of my haiku, hosted by David Oates (my contribution begins at about the 56:00 mark, to end the broadcast).
★ Eastside Poets: RASP at Hugo House (1:57:30)
25 April 2023 audio (only) of a reading by six Redmond Association of Spokenword (RASP) poets at Hugo House in Seattle, Washington, hosted by Jasmine Plaskon. Readers: Iz White, Catherine Kyle, Balin Lusby, Kari Tai (with interpretive dance), Darren Nordlie, Jeanine Walker, and me. My part starts at the 1:33:23 mark. +
“Wordland” poetry program, WUGA radio, Athens, Georgia (59:00)
26 March 2023 audio broadcast of my “Visiting Shiki” poem, hosted by David Oates (my contribution begins at about the 54:00 mark, to end the broadcast).
★ RattleCast #180 (2:32:25)
6 February 2023 interview with me by Rattle editor Tim Green (live streaming starts at the 0:50 mark, and my segment runs from 8:15 to 1:31:10 or so (with further reference to my reading in some of the poems shared in the open-mic that follows)
Wise Owl Interview (1:18:36)
1 January 2023 interview with me by Neena Singh for The Wise Owl (India), recorded 25 November 2022; see also a separate print interview by Neena Singh 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)
★ First Frost #1 (3:57)
Celebrating 19 poems selected from issue #1 of First Frost, a haiku journal I coedit. Video created in August of 2021.
★ 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 out of 2:40:41)
6 June 2021, British Haiku Society annual meeting (presentation)
My part begins at the 1:56:33 mark, 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) +
★ Another Country (1:19)
A rengay by Jacquie Pearce and Michael Dylan Welch, first published in 2018 (video made in 2021). +
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)
★ Dance into the World (2:43)
December 2020 celebration of the Tanka Society of America’s 20th anniversary anthology, Dance into the World, which I edited. +
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) +
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