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Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta
Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta is passionate about what haikai poetic forms allow a writer to do. Basho’s haiku inspire him to look closely at nature. Issa’s inspire him to appreciate all life with sensitivity. To write like these great Japanese masters is a lifelong goal and he intends to pursue it. His haiku, senryu and haiga have appeared in leading journals like haikuKATHA, Tsuri-dōrō, Acorn, and others. He is the founding editor of Haiku Seed Journal.