editors on haikuKATHA : Shalini Pattabiraman, Vidya Shankar, Firdaus Parvez and Kala Ramesh Lorraine Haig  has stepped down from being a mentor for this forum. Triveni Haikai India and The Haibun Gallery are grateful for her exceptional feedback and responses over  the last few years. Guest Editor: Shloka Shanker Featured Poet: Kat Lehmann A Thursday Feature January 22, 2026     A List of Foods for the End of the World     Kat Lehmann   Chocolate.   go bag eighty percent won

haikuKATHA unfolding the story within a monthly journal from Triveni Haikai India Issue 51 22 January 2026 founder and managing editor: Kala Ramesh associate editors: Ashish Narain Firdaus Parvez Priti Aisola Sanjuktaa Asopa Shalini Pattabiraman Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Vandana Parashar Vidya Shankar web editor : Ravi Kiran proofreader : Sushama Kapur cover art: Prakash Thombre ISSUE 51 Please post your feedback about the poems and the overall experience in this th

hosts: Kashinath Karmakar, Neena Singh, Rohan Kevin Broach & Amoolya Kamalnath indianKUKAI #52| January 2026 Namaste! Hello! We welcome you to the 52nd edition of indianKUKAI theme: first sunrise V oting period: January 19 to January 25, 2025 12 Midnight (IST) Note that INDIAN STANDARD TIME is 5:30 hours ahead of GMT Thank you for your participation in indianKUKAI #52. We received 100 submissions from all over the world . The haiku sub

haikaiTALKS: Japanese aesthetics – Miyabi |a saturday gathering under the banyan tree A Disclaimer Responsibility for the originality of the haikai rests solely with the submitting poet.  If anyone feels that it is similar to another haikai, they are encouraged to contact the relevant poet directly . Triveni Haikai India will take any action as recommended by the submitting poet. *** Special Guest Poet : Keiko Izawa

A FRIDAY FEATURE Host: Gauri Dixit Mentor: Kanjini Devi Prompter for January : Lorraine Haig OUR MISSION 1. To provide a new poetry workshop each Friday, along with a prompt. 2. To select haiku, senryu, and haiga each month for the journal, haikuKATHA. Each issue will select poems that were posted in this forum from the 3rd of the previous month to the 2nd of the current month. FEEDBACK GUIDELINES ( Included as a guideline, please do not be constrained by these while prov

hosts:  Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our   Wednesday Feature! 14th January, 2026 poet of the month:  Cherie Hunter Day clear night, owl night through the tissue of darkness an exchange their grip of honed surfaces my sinew and bone Tangled Hair 3 (2001) This is an example of a 1/2/2 shift. a songbird’s nest held all winter to the sky now the greening ash fills in between its branches somet

SUBMISSION calendar  | January 2026 host : Lakshmi Iyer DAILY SUBMISSIONS: 1. Haiga Online https://www.dailyhaiga.org/submissions/   2. Haikuniverse https://haikuniverse.com/submit/ 3. Mainichi Daily News https://mainichi.jp/english/contact/haiku/   4. Black and White Haiga/Haisha https://ourbesthaiga.blogspot.com/ 5. Five Fleas Itchy Poetry https://fivefleas.blogspot.com/ h ttps://fivefleas.blogspot.com/ 6. Heliosparrow https://heliosparrow.com/submis

hosts : Sanjuktaa Asopa & Aparna Pathak from the open window woodpecker ... punctuates my haiku -Charlotte Digregorio (First place, Modern haiku category,IllinoisState Poetry Society Annual Contest, 2017)

triveni spotlight A FEATURE EVERY ALTERNATE DAY hosts : Anju Kishore and Mohua Maulik GUEST EDITOR: Mohua Maulik 25th January 2026 triveni spotlight January 2026 long phone call — the smell of burnt rice from the kitchen —Daipayan Nair haikuKATHA issue 8    <> <> <> The Lightness of Being Humor in haikai is what first drew me to this extraordinary genre of poetry. Humor that is subtle or overt, one that mak