haikaiTALKS: Japanese aesthetics: toriawase |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 Iza

A FRIDAY FEATURE Host: Gauri Dixit Mentor: Kanjini Devi Prompter for March : Saumya Bansal 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 1st of the previous month to the 30th or 31st of the previous month. FEEDBACK GUIDELINES ( Included as a guideline, please do not be constrained by these whi

Editors on haikuKATHA : Shalini Pattabiraman, Vidya Shankar, Firdaus Parvez and Kala Ramesh Guest Editor:   Linda Papanicolaou Featured Poet :   Patricia J. Machmiller Host: Srinivas Sambangi A Thursday Feature 12th March 2026 In the thick of it . . . Patricia J. Machmiller This morning a dense fog muffles the sound of breakers. It rolls shoreward, rises curling lightly, passing around and over the house. A hawk on the hunt flies low over the dunes. Today’s news arrives sheat

hosts:  Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our  Wednesday Feature! 11 th  March 2026 poet of the month:  Kanjini Devi   now you are one  with water and wind  ashes to ashes  I whisper your name  at first and final light                                            (haikuKATHA #20 June 2023)      lilac clusters   adorn the jacaranda   we planted   if only you could see   all that you have given                  

SUBMISSION calendar  | march 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/submissi

haikuKATHA unfolding the story within a monthly journal from Triveni Haikai India Issue 52 22 February 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 52 Please post your feedback about the poems and the overall experience in this t

hosts: Amoolya Kamalnath, Kashinath Karmakar, Neena Singh, & Rohan Kevin Broach We conclude this edition of the indianKUKAI # 52 100 Submissions came from 26 countries: Algeria, Australia, Bulgaria, Croatia, England, France, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Scotland, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Trinidad, UAE, and the USA. theme: first light The winner is * * * Sanjuktaa Asopa * * * with 45

hosts : Sanjuktaa Asopa & Aparna Pathak changing kimonos between seasons . . .       my ordinary life - Pamela A. Babusci ( 1st R.H. Blyth Award (World Haiku Club) 2002, HM World Haiku Review 2:2, July 2002, 1st With Words International Haiku Contest ,2008   )

triveni spotlight A FEATURE EVERY ALTERNATE DAY hosts : Anju Kishore and Mohua Maulik GUEST EDITOR: Swagata Soumyanarayan 15th March 2026 triveni spotlight March 2026 boxes of negatives vanishing points of our children —Thomas Smith The Heron’s Nest, September 2024   <> <> <> Nostalgia  “We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometime