Ram Krishna Singh Biography

Brought up and educated in Varanasi, India I was, till recently, a university professor teaching English language skills to students of earth and mineral sciences. I have authored over 160 research articles and 170 book reviews in journals in all over the world.
I have been writing poems in English for over four decades and am widely anthologised and published in various journals and ezines.
New Indian English Poetry: An Alternative Voice: R.K.Singh (ed: I.K. Sharma,2004) and R.K.Singh's Mind and Art: A Symphony of Expressions (ed: Rajni Singh,2011) are two comprehensive critical presentations of my creativity since the 1970s.
My latest books of poetry include Sense and Silence: Collected poems (2010) , New and Selected Poems Tanka and Haiku (2012) , I Am No Jesus and other selected poems: Tanka and haiku (2014) , You Can't Scent Me and Other Selected Poems (2016) , God Too Awaits Light (2017) , Growing Within/Desavârsire launtrica (English/Romanian,2017) , Reflections: R.K.Singh's Poetry and Self (2018) , There's No Paradise and Other Selected Poems Tanka & Haiku (2019) , Tainted With Prayers/Contaminado con oraciones (English/Spanish, Traductor Joseph Berolo Ramos,2019) , Silencio: Blanca Desconfianza: Silence: White Distrust (Spanish Edition, Spanish/English, Kindle,2021) , A Lone Sparrow: Haiku Poems (English/Arabic, Tr. Boubaker Rouagha, ed. Mahmoud Al-Rajabi,2021) , Against The Waves: Selected Poems (2021) , Covid-19 And Surge of Silence/Kovid-19 Hem Sessízlík Tolk? n? (English/Tatar, ed. and trans. Taner Murat,2021) , ? ? : SILENCE: A WHITE DISTRUST (English/Japanese, tr. Rika Inami, Kindle Edition,2021) , Changing Seasons: Collected Tanka and Haiku (e-book, English/Arabic, ed. Mahmoud Al-Rajabi,2021) , Lantern In The Sky: Selected Haiku (e-book, English/French, tr. Agouray Fatima,2022) , SHE: Haiku Celebrating Woman That Makes Man Complete (e-book, ed. Mahmoud Al-Rajabi, Arabic Haiku Club,2022) , Drifty Silence (e-book, ed. Mahmoud Al-Rajabi,2023) , Poems and Micropoems (Arizona: Southern Arizona Press,2023) , and Knocking Vistas And Other Poems (New Delhi: Authors Press,2024) . Writing Editing Publishing: A Memoir (2016) celebrates my contact with academics, poets, editors and others who shared my concerns.
I am married and have two children, one son and one daughter.
Find me on Twitter @profrksingh and on Facebook www.facebook.com/profrksingh. More at https: //pennyspoetry.fandom.com/wiki/R.K._Singh
I am now live at Vastu Vihar Colony, Kawa bandh, N.H.2, Govindpur, Dhanbad 826008