Created By Osher Members: A renga style poem by the Poetry 101: Rhyme, Rhythm, and Structure class
During Spring Session 2, the Poetry 101: Rhyme, Rhythm, and Structure class has been creating poems using a simple, straight-forward process. Using hands-on writing opportunities, the class starts with rhyming couplets, then moves through rhythms, meter and scansion, into more complex forms like sonnets, pantoums, and villanelles. The fourth session presents Japanese forms: haiku, tanka, haiban, which are all for individual poets, and three forms of poems that are written collaboratively, including the renga.
During the mid-session break, the class collaborated on creating a renga. Traditionally, renga can be up to 100 verses. In two weeks, the Poetry 101 class wrote 30 verses.