Alan Pizzarelli (born 1950) is an American poet, songwriter, and musician. He was born of an Italian-American family in Newark, New Jersey, and raised in the first ward’s Little Italy. He is a major figure in English-language haiku and Senryū.

Poetry

Pizzarelli has performed numerous poetry readings and has taught poetry workshops in the US and internationally, including the International School of Lausanne, Switzerland, The Nick Virgilio Haiku Association in Camden, New Jersey, and The Newark Museum. From 2005 until 2009 he was senryū editor for the online poetry journal, Simply Haiku. He is co-producer and co-host of the podcast, Haiku Chronicles. Tom Lynch writes of the following Pizzarelli haiku: "This last poem is as profound and literal an evocation of sabi, the incessant rusting of existence wrought by time, as exists in Western haiku."

Works

Books

Pizzarelli is the author of 12 books of haiku and related poems including:

Anthologies

Pizzarelli's poetry has appeared in many anthologies and books including: Pizzarelli was a consultant for Jack Kerouac’s Book of Haikus, edited by Regina Weinreich (Penguin Poets, 2003)

Periodicals

Pizzarelli's poems and essays have appeared in numerous publications, such as:

Electronic media

Pizzarelli has been featured on podcasts, radio, video and film: