• 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,…

  • 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…

  • Love song

    This post is a simple one, a tip of the hat to my most favorite love song ever. Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s words are the very definition of romance in my mind.  Here’s her most famous sonnet.     Return to Skaypisms for more.

  • A nod to spring

    Am stoked to share my debut in LEAF!  (At the link here)   This issue is gorgeous, and I swallowed it up in one gulp. Beautiful work by so many haikuists of the world, I am honored to be standing among them. I hope you read, comment and most of all, enjoy some beautiful haiku/senryu. …