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  • Journal of Renga & Renku 2: list of contributors

    Journal of Renga & Renku 2: list of contributors

    Hortensia Anderson considers renku an instrument of transformation as well as intimacy. She lives in the East Village in NYC with her bengal leopard cat, Camellia. Jeffrey Angles is an associate professor of Japanese and translation at Western Michigan University.  Much of his research on Japanese literature focuses on expressions of erotic desire of modern [...]

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  • 2011 JRR Renku Contest

    2011 JRR Renku Contest

    Further to our call for content for the Journal of Renga & Renku, we are delighted to announce this year’s renku contest which will be judged by well-known renku poet, Eiko Yachimoto. Details below: Entry fee: None Deadline: 1 October 2011 Prizes 1. The winning poem will be published, together with a detailed critique, in [...]

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  • Purchase Journal of Renga & Renku

    Purchase Journal of Renga & Renku

    Purchase Journal of Renga & Renku, Issue 1. 170 pages of Poetry, Essays, Translations, Commentaries and Reports

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  • Journal of Renga & Renku 1: list of contributors

    Journal of Renga & Renku 1: list of contributors

    Keith Kumasen Abbott: My Zen Teacher loved a big triangular rock I found lying on its side buried in a dry creek in New Mexico, just its speckled salt and pepper ridge showing. He was very excited and said that in Japanese this type was called a “lying-down upright rock.”  So this stone stands straight [...]

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