Kashiana
About Kashiana
When Kashiana is not writing, she lives to embody her TEDx talk theme of Work as Worship in her daily life. Her poetry carries her various geopolitical homes across India and the United States. Kashiana serves as Managing Editor for Poets Reading the News and is President of the North Carolina Poetry Society.
Her poetry collections include Crushed Anthills by Yavanika Press(2020), Woman by the Door by Apprentice House Press(2022), and Witching Hour by Glass Lyre Press(2024)
Kashiana has been widely published on various international platforms including Poets Reading the News, Rattle Poetry, Visual Verse, Oddball Magazine, Café Dissensus, TurnPike Magazine, Inverse Journal, Counter-Currents, NewsVerse, RiseUp Review, Madras Courier, The Beltway Poetry. Her work has been anthologized in the Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English and many themed anthologies. Kashiana is deeply inspired by haiku writing and has published many poems in journals dedicated to Japanese poetry.
Kashiana is Vice President at a healthcare company in the US and brings over 28 years of outcome-oriented experience in business operations and client delivery. She has proven to be an organizational catalyst across the continuum of change – a culture ambassador, and an early adopter of process and technology.
Her poetry contributions are extending through memberships of various communities and has recently been appointed as a Council Member for the Literary Arts Society for WICCI, Women’s Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Kashiana’s Books –
Witching Hour is her latest book published by Glass Lyre Press in 2024.
James Crews (https://www.jamescrews.net/) says “This book offers us a set of instructions for how we too might stay more present to the many blessings of ordinary moments and our everyday lives. Whether watching an 8-month-old eat a sunny-side-up egg, or making a cup of cardamom tea with a lover, Singh finds sacred beauty everywhere she looks, and brings her readers along with her, too. She shows us over and over that a poem moves through us “like/wild geese following the softest parts of/their bodies,” offering both grace and truth, “as if the earth depends on it.”…………………..https://a.co/d/hESDgSu
Sing with Earth and Me – ABC is a book of art and poetry for early learners created and illustrated by JapNeet Kaur with micro poems by Kashian Singh.
There is no debate on the fact that prioritizing the sacred purpose of the planet’s health is the most pressing demand on humanity today. A picture book that combines micro poems for each letter of the alphabet, with artwork as a visual anchor to engage our youngest ambassadors. Sing with Earth and Me brings into the hands of parents, teachers, communities, and grandparents a resource that inspires sustainable action and teaches poetry with a splash of colorful illustrations. Sing with Earth and Me creates a collective alignment with the most important environmental agenda in every home and school………………https://a.co/d/8gHJNAp
Woman by the Door is her second full-length collection and was released in Feb 2022 with Apprentice House Press.
This book is a knitted collage of poems rooted in lived experiences and saturated with the poet’s varied sensibilities and influences. The poems flow through three sections – Aperture explores poems of memory and family, Portal opens the door to transition and growth, Detours holds our hand through loss and ache. The woman herself is an intersection, kneeling by the door – coming, going, waiting, leaning in. Witnessing. Relentlessly she receives and offers lifetimes. Woman by the Door is ultimately preoccupied with paying tribute to that woman…………………………https://linktr.ee/kashianasingh
Crushed Anthills by Yavanika Press released in 2020 with Yavanika Press and is a loco-descriptive journey through 10 cities. Anthills are a by-product of hard-working ants digging subterrestrial tunnels. This chapbook is a set of 10 place centered poems threading through different cities: moving constantly, creating anthills, and then crushing them as the speaker unravels the next dwelling. These poems have accompanying photographs from Kashiana’s personal archives………….https://payhip.com/b/RxVo
Shelling Peanuts and Stringing Words was Kashiana’s debut collection and was released in January 2019 by Impish Lass Publications. Kashiana has collaborated with New York-based artist Japneet Kaur who has done the illustrations for each of the eight sections of the book, starting with Remembered Routines, expanding outwards Death and War, and ending with Portraits of People and Nature.
