• 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,…

  • an ode to home

    Valentine month is a celebration in Glomag, where the issue is a paperback available through Amazon.  (At the link here)     Glomag is always a bumper issue with atleast a couple hundred poets contributing, this year’s February issue is no different. Among other beautiful creations, here is my poem this month, some reflections on…

  • On Poetry Pea

    You know how much I fan-girl over Poetry Pea podcast. The podcast host Patricia McGuire has guided me (and many others I’m sure) through the haikai path with her insightful observations, her unmatched haiku reading and her trailblazer guests the past couple of years when I started writing haiku, senryu and other haikai poetry forms.…

  • Hope and such

    I’m sitting looking out at a damp day, in an unusually warm February.  This month is a time it normally snows, and the cold and gray seems to seep through the pores of the skin. There are some dreams that keep me going. The superlative journal of Triveni Haikai India, haikuKATHA which publishes some of…

  • A glowing new year

     Here’s wishing all my readers a beautiful new year’s day!  It is always a pleasure when the carefully curated Glomag is published. A meeting place for numerous poets, this magazine is a collection of excellent poetry and I always feel honored to be included.  Read the issue released on Jan 1st 2023 here:  https://glomaglib.blogspot.com/ Here…