ABOUT
THE POET Ram Krishna
Singh, born on 31 December 1950 in Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh, India), has beenwriting poetry in English for about four decades.
He has authored over 160 academic articles,175 book reviews, and 56 books. His collections of poems include I Am No Jesus
And OtherSelected Poems, Tanka and Haiku (English/Crimean Tatar, Romania, 2014), You Can't Scent Me and Other Selected Poems(New
Delhi, 2016), God Too Awaits Light (California, 2017), Growing Within - Desavarsire launtrica: haiku, tanka and other poems
(English/Romanian; Constanta, Romania, 2018), There's No Paradise and Other Selected Poems Tanka & Haiku (French Edition,
Riga, Latvia, 2019), Tainted with Prayers: Contaminado con Oraciones(English/Spanish; Colombia, 2020), Silencio: Blanca Desconfianza/Silence:
White Distrust(Spanish Edition, Edición Kindle, Colombia,2021), Covid-19 And Surge of Silence/Kovid-19Hem Sessízlík
Tolkȋnȋ (English/Tatar; Romania, 2021), Against the Waves: Selected Poems(2021), 白濁: SILENCE: A WHITE
DISTRUST (English/Japanese, 2021), Poems andMicropoems (Arizona, 2023), and Knocking Vistas And Other Poems (New Delhi, 2024). Widely published and anthologized, and
appreciated for his tanka and haiku, R.K. Singh's poemshave been translated into several languages, including Japanese, Greek,
Italian, German, French,Irish, Spanish, Chinese, Portuguese, Romanian, Crimean Tatar, Bulgarian, Russian, Slovene,Bosnian,
Hungarian, Croatian, Albanian, Farsi, Arabic, Serbian, Esperanto, Hindi, Nepali, Punjabi, Kannada, Tamil, and Bangla. His awards and honors include Ritsumeikan
University Peace Museum Award, Kyoto, 1999,Certificate of Honor and Nyuusen Prize, Kumamoto, 2000 and 2008, Life time AchievementAward
of the International Poets Academy, Chennai, 2009, Prize of Corea Literature, SouthKorea, 2013, Naji Naaman's Literary Prize,
Lebanon, 2015, and nomination for Pushcart Prize,2013, 2014. Well known as an Indian English poet, haikuist and ELT/EST practitioner, Dr Singh
retired on31 December 2015 as Professor (HAG) at Indian Institute of Technology--Indian School ofMines, Dhanbad (India). More
at: https://profrksingh.wordpress.comhttps://rksingh.blogspot.com https://rksinghpoet.blogspot.comhttps://profrksinghlistofpublications.blogspot.com/
andhttps://pennyspoetry.wikia.com/wiki/R.K._Singh. email: profrksingh@gmail.com
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