Lakshmi Iyer likes to live in the breath of words and sounds that speak of her observations, experiences and inner silences. She loves to share her voice that speaks of a profound revelation and which awakens an awareness from self to selfless and from word to wordless. She is the co-editor of ‘amber i pause’. Her interview, ‘New to Haiku: Advice to Beginners’ by The Haiku Foundation was put up on May 7, 2023. She had her palette of 31 Indian poets sharing their poems in the August Per Diem 2023 of The Haiku Foundation. Her poems are being showcased at Mann Library in April 2024. She is the host of thinkALONG! and Submissions Calendar at Triveni Haikai India incorporated by Kala Ramesh. Apart from haiku, she loves writing tanka, haiga, haibun, rengay, renku and cherita. Her poems have been nominated for Touchstone Award 2021, Pushcart Prize 2022 and Best of Net Anthology 2022. Her poems can be read in EFSLE English Haiku Anthology 2020, Seabeck Haiku Getaway Anthology 2020, 2021 Haiku North America Conference Anthology, Haiku 2022 Anthology, Bull-Headed Anthology 2023, amber i pause 2023, To Live Here Anthology 2023, Loneliness Anthology 2023, upside down : the Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2023, SEA CHANGE : the first Whiptail Anthology 2024 and a haiga in Contemporary Haibun Anthology 16 as well as in The Haiku Way to Healing : Illness, Injury and Pain Anthology 2022.
Her accolades are ‘a HM in Monthly Kukai/THF – April 2021, HM in Monthly Kukai / THF – July 2021, HM in 24th Mainichi Haiku Contest – April 2020, HM in First Yugen International Haiku Contest, Romania – April 2021, HM in 75th Basho Memorial Contest, 2021, HM in Mt. Fuji Taisho Tanka Contest 2022, First Prize in G. Murtha Senryu Contest 2023, Special Selection in The 5th Morioka International Haiku Contest 2023, Award for Excellence in Mt.Fuji Tanka Grand Prix Contest 2023.’