NIU Haiku Music Festival, 2021

Honoured to be a part of Haiku Festival where Northern Illinois University (NIU) 2021 composers composed music on 17 haiku by 17 poets including one of mine about Kashmir with Urdu translation.

Kudos to Professor Greg Beyer for hosting us

NIU New Music Ensemble: Haiku Set 2 Read by Angie Trudell Vasquez - Poet Laureate - Madison, WI

Celebration Will Go On 

Haiku: Hifsa Ashraf 

Music: Daniel Burke


tumbaknari beat
echoing through the valley
monsoon rain droplets


تمبک ناری تھاپ
وادی میں گونجتے ہوئے
برسات کےننھے قطرے

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roXGLH2oux0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAM9w4XOQEk

Regina Baiocchi co-hosted this with @NIUlive ’s #Music Dept. Angie Trudell Vasquez, was #PoetLaureate of Madison, WI @HaikuFest hosted James Morehead, #PoetLaureate of Dublin, CA, et al. #haiku #poets whose poems were set to music Prof. Greg Beyer is conducting @NIULive ’s New #Music Ensemble.