Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Renée Gregorio has a black belt rank in Aikido and a master's degree in creative writing from Antioch University, London. In WATER SHAD: AIKIDO TANKA she combines these two passions, presenting a series of poems connected to Aikido. "When I first entered an Aikido dojo, I felt immense fear--fear of falling, fear of not being able to perform, fear of not being good enough, of looking silly. Now I see how each of those fears were, indeed, manifested, and how it really didn't matter or affect my love of the art"-from the introduction.
Author Hometown: EL RITO, NM USA
About the author: Renée Gregorio is a founding editor of the Taos Review and is a co-founder of Tres Chicas Books. She has five books of published poetry.
