• New pub news!

    On the occasion of National Poetry Month 2026, poet Vidya Shankar and I bring to you, our book which has been almost two years in the making: Light and Line Drawings! This book is a dual-voice poetry collection exploring lives on completely different continents. Light and Line Drawings is a dialog between two poets who,…

  • C: Josie smiled at Iype from her picture on the wall. The pain was almost unbearable. Till Death do us part, they had promised each other in the little village church. Rains had just washed the entire village clean. Josie was beautiful in her white sari, her long black hair in a thick braid, cradled…

  • B: “…when I had no worries, fears, or desires, when my life seemed as soft and lovely as lying inside a cocoon of rose silk.” ― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club When one has no knowledge of what the world is all about, I suppose life can be an endless meadow of summer daisies…

  • “If I didn’t care for fun and such,     I’d probably amount to much.     But I shall stay the way I am,     Because I do not give a damn.”   — Dorothy Parker A: She wound up her cursory scan of the newspaper headlines. Hunger and famine kills 29 thousand kids in three…

  • April Emotions

    I’ve decided I’m going to take it on. The A to Z April challenge that is. My theme is going to be: Emotions. Admittedly, there will be some days where I’d have to take some artistic liberty with the theme, seeing as I cannot, at this point, figure out what emotion starts with a Q…