Bro ken Rengay

<p><strong>Bro ken Rengay</strong> is a collaborative poetry collection by Barbara Leonhard Melissa Lemay and Nolcha Fox. Inspired by the rengay form-created by Garry Gay in 1992 as an alternative to renga and renku-this book follows the six-verse linked structure while playfully breaking its traditional rules.</p><p></p><p>Originally Barbara and Nolcha collaborated on <em>Too Much Fun to Be Legal</em>. When Melissa discovered their work she suggested the three of them write rengay together. The result? A series of poems where humor anger and deep emotions intertwine forming an authentic and dynamic voice.</p><p></p><p>While honoring the alternating three-line and two-line stanza pattern of rengay the poets deliberately abandoned strict haiku syllable counts-breaking bending and reshaping the form as they wrote. Their creative rebellion led to a collection filled with wit raw emotion and a deep poetic synergy so strong they often forgot who wrote which stanza.</p><p></p><p>We hope you enjoy the laughter the passion and the unexpected twists within these pages.</p><p></p>