RWs' Rengas


Rough Writers' Rengas

The Rough Writers are novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, memoirists, and traveloguers.  We decided that a new challenge would sharpen our skills in our respective genres, and set out to try our hand at a renga.  

A renga is a form of Japanese linked-verse poetry in which multiple poets supply alternating sections of the poem.  It’s a collaborative poem that, in effect, creates a dialogue among the renga’s writers.  The RWs collaborated via e-mail this summer to create the two rengas that follow.  We think that there are more rengas in our future!

What's a Renga?

     Renga Defined
     What We Did
    NPR Story About Rengas

RWs' Rengas     

     Renga
     Renga About the Renga