• 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,…

  • Waylaid … or not.

    Life has this way with people. You are walking along happy with yourself, with your company, the skies are blue or exactly how you want it. And then… Bam! Dark clouds roll in and it pours or forest fires or some such. But that is no excuse for not moving on. So to all my…

  • Poetry Pea Journal Autumn 2021 is out!

     I am beyond thrilled! My haiku appears in the Poetry Pea Journal (Autumn 2021 issue). The list of haijin in this journal is phenomenal. It is a veritable list of who’s who of English haiku today.  And the haiku! So beautiful, some of them would make your heart sing or give you goosebumps.  Find it…

  • Quo vadis?

        Quo Vadis? Muscles ripple through gleaming skin Beads form and sweat trickles Down a furrowed brow. Each move shows the ache In the overstretched sinew From the strain of the oar And the burden of your toils What keeps you going, traveler? What heartache pumps your blood? What keeps you rowing, sailor? What…

  • New adventures…

    Earlier this year, after the Poetry Marathon, so beautifully led by Caitlins Elizabeth Jans, I was drawn into Japanese poetry forms. It started with a Ziuhitsu that was a prompt provided by Jacob Jans during the marathon. As I researched this form, I realized that my haikus were far from what a haiku really is.…