Participants from the 2012 Spring Renga will gave a reading at the Prairie Moon Reading, Crescent Moon Coffee, on Monday July 2, 2012 at 7 p.m.
We hope this introduced renga to a lot of poets who might otherwise not try to discover it. We intended to introduce the concept and read through the entire renga once. Then individual poets read from their contributed "stanzas" ("haiku" and couplets) as well as from their other, non-renga, poetry. We also answered questions from the audience.
Participants were (in sequence):
Sarah Fairchild
Shiela Tinkham
Charlene Neeley
Mark Fairchild
Larry Reznicek (Clifford C Taylor filled in for Larry Reznicek who could not attend)
I think it was a successful reading, and we hope to have a few new poets at the summer renga.