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: Lakshmi Iyer Featured Poet: Teji Sethi A Thursday Feature 11th December Blame  it on  Amygdala     The smell of phenol floats in the morning fog. At the entrance, I slip my feet

hosts:  Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our   Wednesday Feature! 10th December, 2025 poet of the month:  Michele L. Harvey I can hear them crashing through the underbrush and breaking branches those imps of unbridled ire who bide in my monkey mind Red Lights, Vol. 16, No. 1, 2020 do not fret over living a quiet life silence is what every note needs to make music Eucalypt Issue 34, 2023, Scribble Award win

haikaiTALKS: The Quiet Edges of Presence: a Winter Sabi Series |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 Gue

A FRIDAY FEATURE Host: Gauri Dixit Mentor: Kanjini Devi Prompter for December : Gauri Dixit 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 provi

Triveni Utsav 2025 - held on 14th September 2025 Guest Speakers: Michael Dylan Welch Susan Antolin Triveni Haiku Awards 2025 Contest Judges: Ashish Narain Michael DylanWelch Below is the link to view the utsav on our Triveni YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbY4KX5Ggdc The Special Issue is now LIVE!! *****

haikuKATHA unfolding the story within a monthly journal from Triveni Haikai India Issue 49 22 November 2025 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: Priti Aisola ISSUE 49 Please post your feedback about the poems and the overall experience on this thre

SUBMISSION calendar  | november 2025 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/submi

triveni spotlight A FEATURE EVERY ALTERNATE DAY hosts : Anju Kishore and Mohua Maulik GUEST EDITOR: Vidya Shankar 11th December 2025 triveni spotlight December 2025 a trip down memory lane nothing but chatterboxes    —Lakshmi Iyer Failed Haiku, June 2024    <> <> <> Ode to the One-line Haiku Coming from a free verse background, my venture into haiku was with the sole purpose of understanding, learning, and

A TUESDAY FEATURE hosts:  Padma Rajeswari, K. Ramesh guest editor:  Joanna Ashwell     Only the unpublished  poems (that are never  published on any  social media platform/journals/anthologies) posted here for each prompt will be considered for Triveni Haikai India's monthly journal -- haikuKATHA, each month.   Poets are requested to post poems (haiku/senryu) that adhere to the prompts/exercises given.   Only 1 poem to be posted in   24 hours. Total 2 poems per poet  are allo