Essays on Rengay by Others

This page documents essays that have been written by a variety of authors to promote and celebrate rengay, a collaborative six-verse poetry form invented in 1992. These essays are arranged chronologically, with the earliest essays first. Essays by Michael Dylan Welch are not included here. For a general overview of rengay, please see the About Rengay page. For introductory information, please see Learning Rengay. And for more advanced essays, please see Studying Rengay and Publishing Rengay.

• Rengay: Going Solo by Cherie Hunter Day, 1995

• Collaboration: Exploring Rengay by Ce Rosenow, 1997

• About the Poems by John Thompson, 1998

• Beyond/Within: A Review by Margaret Chula, 2000

• The Rengay Verse Form by Joan Zimmerman, 2002 (overview of rengay)

• Rengay by Garry Gay, 2003 (by rengay’s inventor, from In Good Company)

• Global Haiku Tradition Rengay Kukai, with student commentary, 2003

• Rengay: A Journey into Symbiotic Poetry by Deborah P Kolodji, 2004

• The Rengay / Das Rengay by Gerd Börner, 2006 (in English and German)

• From Scifaiku to Rengay by Deborah P Kolodji, 2006

• The Moment of Awe interview with Garry Gay by Udo Wenzel, 2006

• Writing Rengay by Garry Gay, 2006 (an expansion of the In Good Company essay of 2003)

• Rengay: The Art of Partnering by Carolyn Hall, 2007

• Global Haiku Tradition Rengay Kukai, with student commentary, 2007

• Rengay by Garry Gay, 2011 (from Lighting the Global Lantern)

• Rengay Afterword by Marleen Hulst and Bouwe Brouwer, 2012 (in English and Dutch)

• Global Haiku Tradition Rengay Kukai, with student commentary, 2014

• Rengay by Garry Gay, 2020 (short overview from Sound of a Leaf)

• A Word from Garry Gay by Garry Gay, 2021 (introduction to issue #1 of the rengay magazine, Tandem)

• Rengay Website Review by John Thompson, 2023

Note: If you know of other essays about rengay that could be added, please contact Michael Dylan Welch.