Rengay

Rengay is not the plural of renga. They’re both linked forms made using haiku and a 2 line connect to next haiku that run in a chain in a group or in pairs. Renga wants to hook and pivot without doubling back. Each shifts can be as in a ghazal. The connection might be tenuous […]

Christine Stewart: Refining, and Refusing Definitions

When I read from Taxonomies a couple years ago I was engaged with the format and the picture dictionary look it, but put off by skim vocabulary loaded with words like: precedes, mentality, pelagic, pugnacious, conspicuous symmetry. It looks, in formatting, like prose, which is fine. It scans formal. It looks like it comes from […]