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An invaluable guide to renku composition with renku master, Kris Moon Kondo and guest poets Henry Brann, Robin Palley, and Penny Harter.

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In July, Kris Kondo Moon was visiting the states from Japan, and we all rode together to a Renku Party in Margate, NJ. We joined fellow poets, Henry Brann, Robin Palley, and Penny Harter to write poetry under the summer’s full moon known as the “Thunder Moon.”

The final Kasen Renku (36 stanzas) by poets: Thunder Moon (PDF)

Links:

• The 500 Essential Season Words by Kenkichi Yamamoto, translated by Kris Young Kondo and William J. Higginson.
• Link and Shift: A Practical Guide to Renku Composition by Tadashi Shôkan Kondô and William J. Higginson.

Credits
Opening Gong recordings: Rancan Gong, Tim Drussell / Yoyogi Gong by Marec
End Music by Alan Pizzarelli
Moon Photo by NASA