It has been a couple of months since the one of a kind haikai journal shut its doors. I have noticed it to be the fate of several journals these days, and wonder if it has to do with editor-burnout. One does get exhausted with taking care of life while at the same time running…

To be chosen among so many is always an honor. Hence any publication is an award in itself. Haiku Girl Summer is a Journal with issues only in summer. I have been privileged to be published five times in this year’s issues. Many thanks to the editors of this summer for selecting my haiku: Katherine…

I have always wondered about the idea of naming someone at birth. How did my name come to be associated so much with music? Did they know that I would react to music like that? Did they know that the only place I could dare sing is the bathroom?   In any case in this month’s…

This month has been an especially turbulent one for me. As I pondered the whys and wherefores of war, I noticed that there were fewer mentions of the women in war as compared to men. Operation Sindhoor, (such a Bollywood name for a serious endeavor) was made out to be how men avenged killings by…

It has been very long since I sent in a submission. But failed haiku had a new submissions calendar, and I was running around a bit less stressed. So here are some senryu that made it into the journal. Check out the other poems in this lovely journal here: failed haiku For a wee memory of…