Water to Water: Gaza Renga

A poetry collaboration in the call-and-response form of Renga by two award-winning poets during the genocide in Gaza.

In 2009, prompted by the Israeli siege of Gaza, poets Marilyn Hacker and Deema Shehabi started a correspondence. It took the form of responding to each other's poems. They resumed their poetic dialogue by email after Israel launched its genocidal war on Gaza in October 2023.

Their project involved an alternate call and response between them in the tradition of the Japanese r...