• far from failed_haiku

    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…

  • …Touchstone and Red Moon press anthology nomination 2024…

      It is always a thrill to be nominated! Journals usually have so many many poems to choose from and when one of your work makes the cut, it’s a thrill beyond compare. Also the feeling of being seen, being recognized.  Leaf Journal has announced its nominations. And my following haiku has made the cut.…

  • …and everything in between…

    Composing poems is a lonely path. So when I found the Evergreen Haiku group where a few poets came together to discuss haiku, I was elated! It was excellently facilitated by Michele Root-Bernstein. I was a member of the group for a very short time but I loved every moment of it. When the doors…

  • Curating

    While I sit at my desk watching the midwest winter creep in slowly, I realize that I have not yet got my head wrapped around all that it meant for me to be a curator for Drifting Sands Haibun, Issue 29.   It was certainly a learning experience. And answered the question: What do people…

  • From the world of a haijin

    It will soon be three years since I discovered the world of haiku. No, not the 5-7-5 form that we were taught in school because it was easier to teach syllables using this idea.  It was in a workshop by John Stevenson during the inauguration of Triveni Haikai India, where the realization of the relation…