Meet this Bengaluru-based physician-poet who loves haiku

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. Maybe I could read it, but not write it,” she says.