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Ram Krishna Singh, PhD (born December 31, 1950, Varanasi, India; often publishes as R.K.Singh), retired professor and head of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, India, and prominent English-language poetry author, critic, and editor. He has published 60 books, 25 of them collections of poetry and 12 of these volumes of haikai, tanka, and micropoetry. Several are bilingual editions in Spanish, Italian, Romanian, Arabic, Japanese, and Crimean Tatar. His 2010 book Sense and Silence, gathers most of his poems from 1974 through 2009; his most recent collection, Knocking Vistas and Other Poems appeared in 2024. Widely published in India and abroad, Singh’s haikai have been included in the international anthologies of Zoe Savina (2002), Dimitar Anakiev (2013), Bruce Ross et al. (2015), Kala Ramesh et al. (2016), and Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih and Rimi Nath (2024). He has also published criticism of Indian and Western poetry and edited a dozen literary and language publications. In addition to awards in the Kusamakura Haiku Competition (2000 and 2008), the poet has garnered many international literary prizes and honors. He resides in Dhanbad, Jharkand, India.
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