hosts:  Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our  Wednesday Feature! 15th April 2026 poet of the month:   Pravat Kumar Padhy her cloth soaked with tears… on the edge  of curled green leaf the burden of the heavy rains   Cold Moon Journal, 15 October 2000 (Ed. Roberta Beach Jacobson) Windrows You roll along the trails of forests, garden paths, backyards, and busy city streets. The melodic rustle down the hills s

haikaiTALKS: Japanese aesthetics – Mujō |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. *** Please note: Keiko Izawa won't be

A FRIDAY FEATURE Host: Gauri Dixit Mentor: Kanjini Devi Prompter for April : Milan Rajkumar 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 wh

Editors on haikuKATHA : Shalini Pattabiraman, Vidya Shankar, Firdaus Parvez and Kala Ramesh Guest Editor:   Billie Dee Host: Srinivas Sambangi Featured Poet : Rainer Maria Rilke Introduction   This five-part series explores haibun written in response to poems from the Western tradition. I think of this pairing as a kind of literary ekphrasis, not commentary, exactly, but entering a canonical field, listening, and answering back. A Thursday Feature 9th April 2026 This week, w

SUBMISSION calendar  | april 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 53 22 March 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 53 Please post your feedback about the poems and the overall experience in this thre

triveni spotlight A FEATURE EVERY ALTERNATE DAY hosts : Anju Kishore and Mohua Maulik GUEST EDITOR: John Pappas 15th April 2026 triveni spotlight April 2026 the call for war— i let it go to voicemail — Paul David Mena moongarlic issue 6   <> <> <> Poetry of Resistance In 2007, Mexican artist Jorge Blake created an art installation consisting of a massive monolithic 75’ by 13’ brick wall. A copy of Franz Kafka’s

A TUESDAY FEATURE hosts:  Padma Rajeswari, K. Ramesh guest editor:   Aashna Goyal 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 allowed each

triveni spotlight A FEATURE EVERY ALTERNATE DAY hosts : Anju Kishore and Mohua Maulik GUEST EDITOR: John Pappas 13th April 2026 triveni spotlight April 2026 America the beautiful things slave labor builds — Bryan Rickert Failed Haiku issue 104   <> <> <> Poetry of Resistance In 2007, Mexican artist Jorge Blake created an art installation consisting of a massive monolithic 75’ by 13’ brick wall. A copy of Franz