Meet this Bengaluru-based physician-poet who loves haiku
Dr. Vaishnavi Pusapati is a Bengaluru-based physician and poet who discovered her passion for poetry through the works of Robert Frost. She has recently gained recognition for her haiku, a form of Japanese poetry, and is set to release her first collection titled 'Afterlife' in 2026. Nature and grief are prominent themes in her poetry, reflecting her experiences both in the natural world and in her medical career.
- ▪Dr. Vaishnavi Pusapati began writing poetry after realizing it brought her joy.
- ▪She discovered haiku in 2020 and has since embraced it as her primary form of expression.
- ▪Her upcoming collection, 'Afterlife', will showcase her diverse haiku themed around the seasons.
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Dr Vaishnavi Pusapati’s tryst with poetry started in school, where she first encountered and fell in love with the work of the American poet Robert Frost. “I was enamoured by his style of writing,” recalls the Bengaluru-based physician, clinical researcher and poet, whose poem ‘Cheers to Science’ was recently performed by the Seattle-based Infinity Box Theatre Project as part of its InVerse Functions, a theatrical event of science poetry.But Frost’s biography ended up intimidating her. “I read up about him and discovered that he was a Harvard graduate who went on to teach poetry there. That made me feel a sense of dissonance: that poetry was far away from me.
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