Studying Rengay

Please read these essays on rengay designed to help you study this collaborative six-verse poetry form beyond an introductory level. For a general overview of rengay, please see the About Rengay page, and for introductory information, please see Learning Rengay. For additional essays, please see Essays on Rengay by Others.

• Rengay (Haikupedia overview, with extensive links and bibliography)

• Rengay Clarified

• Rengay: A Status Report

• Breaking Through Novelty: A Survey of Invented Forms of Linked Poetry

• 1995 Haiku Poets of Northern California Rengay Contest (judge’s comments, on Graceguts website)

• 2002 Haiku Poets of Northern California Rengay Contest (judge’s comments, on Graceguts website)

• 2006 Haiku Poets of Northern California Rengay Contest (judge’s comments, on Graceguts website)

• 2022 Haiku Society of America Garry Gay Rengay Award (judges’ comments, on Graceguts website)

• Japanese Renku Group Visits San Francisco (about the origin of rengay, with a postscript about rengay)

• The Place of Rengay in Tanka Journals

• Hammerhorn Lake (the first book of rengay, on Graceguts website)