""'turn, climb, realign' is a journey into the inscrutable connectivity between language and consciousness, a connectivity that is often and unavoidably expressed in images bordering on the surreal. Samar Ghose has taken haibun/gembun to a new level with his sequences creating dense and intriguing worlds where the reader glimpses at pieces, fragments, overhears voices in conversation from the next room through a thin wall, often catching ..."
"“Don’t let the brevity and humor of Peter Jastermsky’s haibun mislead you. Below that is a layer of experience we can all too readily identify with. And underpinning it all is a sense of wonder—or at least a sense of amused surprise. In fact, the prose can sometimes be so diverting that it’s easy to miss how spot on the haiku and senryu are. There may be “no Velcro here,” but these haibun will stick with you for some time to come.” — Bo ..."
"The Poetry Marathon is an annual event where poets write 12 poems in 12 hours or 24 poems in 24 hours. This collection features poems written by poets who successfully completed this challenge."
"“Whether listening to Tchaikovsky penetrate the Bombay night sky, or biting mangoes so real on the page that we taste their succulent meats, Mani G. Iyer transports his readers into his accomplished debut collection, ‘I Am the Dancing.’ And like Tchaikovsky’s compositions, these beautifully rendered poems range from the blithely energetic to the breathtakingly tragic. This is a memorable book that speaks beautifully to what makes us all ..."
the arithmetic of sparrows(1st Edition) Best of Paper Lanterns vol. 1 by ShlokaShankar Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2018 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN-13: 978-1-987531-09-1, ISBN: 1-987531-09-4
"The Best of Paper Lanterns (vol. 1) anthology comprises the top 100 haikai forms published in the tri-annual journal Sonic Boom, during the years 2014 to 2017. 57 poets from over a dozen countries lend their voices to the ongoing exploration of all that contemporary English language haiku and its allied genres have to offer."
"Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is the deep breath of life. - Santoka Taneda Atoms of Haiku is the delicious combination of Haiku from 19 Haijn all around the world. A Haijin tries to capture a present moment and write a haiku about it. Haiku connects Haijin to their surroundings. Atoms of Haiku is like a rejuvenation process for body, mind and soul. Author’s United has collected the best one hundred and ..."
"Haiku are word paintings that pilot the reader beyond the image into a sacred realm. For a poem complete in just a few words, resonance becomes the keynote. In Sanskrit, the primordial sound in the cosmos is known as naad and its resonance as anunaad. According to ancient Indian texts, an instrument, including the human body, vibrates only to this timeless sound. The 746 haiku in this volume come from 26 countries. They resonate, each ..."