I have a new book out: a beautifully handcrafted book of 51 haiku, "Morning in Santiniketan," published by Writers Workshop, Kolkata.

In this book of fifty-one haiku, my poetic journey starts with “Morning in Santiniketan” in West Bengal, India.

Santiniketan, or abode of peace, is a small town in the Indian state of West Bengal.

There in the early 1900s, Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore started a progressive school set in a natural environment; his goal was to stimulate joy in learning.

The place and time where each of the fifty-one haiku in this book took form were a Shantiniketan for me.

 ~A Review excerpt~

(From the review by Melanie Daniels (no relation), April 8, 2011, in Hackwriters at the bottom of the following page: http://www.hackwriters.com/Zach.htm)

“Each evening a few of us read aloud our favorite haiku from Morning in Santiniketan to each other. When I asked one friend which one was her favorite, she replied that if she sat with any one of these haiku that it would become her favorite.  That’s high praise!”