Humans have been around for so long, and yet somehow the species has still so much to learn about itself. I have failed to understand what prompts people to justify second class citizen treatment of women. Women have to constantly perform twice as well to be recognized as half as good. As a species…
Winter blues
All around us is a tug of war. A tug here and a tug there. By people and peoples who are not the ones dying. Not the ones living their fears. Not the ones whose blood flows. And yet so many tugs. And among all these tugs and stretches it is the common man…
A little marvel!
Late post!This news is so dear to me because @pealogic had published my very first haiku back in 2021! In 2024, my ku muggy afternoonseven the dog blinksone eye at a time was nominated for the Touchstone Award. Being one of the nominees is for me an award in itself because of the number…
…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…
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…
Sangita Kalarickal 