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…
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. …
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…
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 here: Poetry Pea…
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.Thus…
Sangita Kalarickal 