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Nickolas Allison reviewed Bro Ken Rengay: Unruly Poetry. His website, The Chaos Section Poetry Project, is linked below. If you haven’t visited it yet, you might want to explore the site.

https://thechaossectionpoetryproject.com/

Here is part of the review. Follow the link below to finish reading it.

Melissa Lemay, who readers will recognize from Record of Dissent, is back with a new collaboration, and this one leans hard into play. Broken Rengay: Unruly Poetry is a quick, sharp collection co-written with Nolcha Fox and Barbara Leonhard, with a striking cover illustration by Lesley Scoble, that takes a poetic form rooted in Japanese tradition and shakes it awake.

The rengay—a modern adaptation of Japan’s ancient linked-verse forms—was created by Garry Gay in 1992. It’s a six-part collaborative poem, traditionally written by two or three poets who take turns building around a shared theme. You can think of it as jazz in verse. Each stanza riffs on what came before, shifting tone, mood, or image while keeping a thread that ties the whole thing together.

In this book, that thread runs wild…… (In this well-developed review is continued below, you will see sample poems …)

Poetry That Breaks the Rules—and Works

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Author Biography

Nick Allison is a former Army infantryman, college dropout, and a writer based in Austin, Texas. His poems and essays have appeared in The Shore, Eunoia Review, HuffPost, The New Verse News, CounterPunch, Dissident Voice, Kindred Characters Literary Journal, The Chaos Section, The Political Prism, Spillwords Press, Masticadores USA, and a few other places that were kind enough to say yes.

He occasionally posts poems at The Truth About Tigers and recently edited Record of Dissent: Poems of Protest in an Authoritarian Age, a political poetry collection published by TCS Press.