John Thompson collaborated on the first published chapbook of rengay, Hammerhorn Lake, with Garry Gay and Michael Dylan Welch in 1995. In 2008 John published another rengay book, The Unlocked Gate with Garry Gay. Although John has had many rengay published, publication is not the major reason he writes rengay. Over the past three decades John has written hundreds of rengay with haiku writers around the globe. John is most grateful for the poetic dialogues and relationships that naturally arose from rengay’s collaborative writing process.
