Ram Krishna Singh (born 31 December 1950) is a reviewer, critic, and contemporary poet who writes in Indian English.
He started his career in journalism, as a Compilation Officer in the District Gazetteers Department, Lucknow, 1973, and a Journalist with the Press Trust of India, New Delhi, 1973-74.
He was also co-editor of the latter publication from 1987–90, General Editor of Creative Forum New Poets Series, and service on the editorial boards of Canopy, Indian Book Chronicle, Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, Reflections, Titiksha, International Journal of Translation, Poetcrit, Impressions of Eternity (i.e.), and SlugFest.
His poems have been translated into French, Spanish, Romanian, Chinese, Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Japanese, Bulgarian, German, Italian, Portuguese, Greek, Crimean Tatar, Arabic, Farsi, Esperanto, Kannada, Tamil, Hindi, Punjabi, Telugu, and Bangla.
With his haiku anthologies, namely Every Stone Drop Pebble (1999), Peddling Dreams (A part of trilogy Pacem in Terris collection of poems in English and Italian, jointly with Myriam Pierri and Giovanni Campisi,English/Italian, 2003), The River Returns (2006), 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 (English/Crimean Tatar, 2014), God Too Awaits Light(Cholla Neddles, September 2017), Growing Within - Desavarsire launtrica: haiku, tanka and other poems (Constanta: Anticus Press, 2018), THERE'S NO PARADISE And Other Selected Poems Tanka & Haiku (French Edition, Editions Muse, 3 April 2019), Tainted With Prayers: Contaminado con Oraciones (English/Spanish, Kindle/Amazon, 10 January 2020), Silencio: Blanca desconfianza: Silence: White Distrust (Spanish/English, Kindle/Amazon, 1 March 2021), Against the Waves: Selected Poems (New Delhi: Authors Press, May 2021), Covid-19 And Surge of Silence/Kovid-19 Hem Sessízlík Tolkȋnȋ (English/Tatar, Constanta: Anticus Press, 2021), Hakudaku: Silence: A White Distrust (English/Japanese, Kindle/Amazon, 18 October 2021), and Lantern In The Sky: Selected Haiku (English/French, Calameo.com, 12 March 2022).