Welcome to our ninth renku session under the sponsorship of The Haiku Foundation. This has been a Jûnichô (twelve verse) renku, under the guidance of John Stevenson. I really enjoyed the discussion this week. Many good ideas offered. You will see that I have made almost no changes but that does … [Read more...]
The Renku Sessions: Breathing In- Week 13
Welcome to our ninth renku session under the sponsorship of The Haiku Foundation. This is a Jûnichô (twelve verse) renku, under the guidance of John Stevenson. Our final verse has been selected from sixty offers, by twenty-four poets. This posting goes live on the Thanksgiving holiday here in the … [Read more...]
The Renku Sessions: Breathing In – Week 12
Welcome to our ninth renku session under the sponsorship of The Haiku Foundation. This will be a Jûnichô (twelve verse) renku, under the guidance of John Stevenson. The counts toward this, our penultimate verse, were twenty-three poets and fifty-one offers. I will be commenting on just a few … [Read more...]
The Renku Sessions: Breathing In – Week 11
Welcome to our ninth renku session under the sponsorship of The Haiku Foundation. This will be a Jûnichô (twelve verse) renku, under the guidance of John Stevenson. Twenty-two poets and fifty-four verses this week. I can see that many faithful participants will not have verses included in the … [Read more...]
The Renku Sessions: Breathing In – Week 10
Welcome to our ninth renku session under the sponsorship of The Haiku Foundation. This will be a Jûnichô (twelve verse) renku, under the guidance of John Stevenson. My thanks to the twenty-two poets (several of them “playing along”) who provided fifty-three possible verse nines! Here are a few … [Read more...]