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                  

hosts:  Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our  Wednesday Feature! 4 th  March 2026 poet of the month:  Kanjini Devi seagulls screeching  over a street guitarist  from the gallery  I pluck up courage  to sing you Songbird                                             (haikuKATHA Issue 11, September 2022)                                                                                                         reap

hosts:  Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our   Wednesday Feature! 25th February, 2026 poet of the month:  Neal Whitman my poetry group gathers at the park terrace rain-blessed leaves transform the concrete surface into a Greek mossaic   cattails, September 2014, Pen the Painting prize a lovely seabird dips her wing into a wave we drop anchor rising from the spindrift a rainbow leaves us too soon

hosts:  Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our   Wednesday Feature! 18th February, 2026 poet of the month:  Neal Whitman waiting on the dock a woman holds a placard with my name on it I am put in her arms my mother is singing to me Eucalypt 15, 2013 Distinctive Scribbler chosen by Julie Thorndike wishful thinking that long ago I would find my touchstone — today crossing a bridge it was right beneath me red l

hosts:  Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our   Wednesday Feature! 11th February, 2026 poet of the month:  Neal Whitman dogs on the beach happy to be with other dogs — at the airport how much I despise all those other people Kernels, Summer 2013 one summer morning the circus came to town by nightfall my best friend and I made plans how we could join the troupe Diogen pro Kultura Magazi

hosts:  Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our   Wednesday Feature! 4th February, 2026 poet of the month:  Neal Whitman in winter nightfall is much like the dropping of a theatre curtain the show is over, go home Eucalypt 33, 2022 Distinguished Scribbler chosen by Amelia Fielden despots fear poets who welcome readers to have the last word — a rule of dictatorship is to control the narrative red lights, June

hosts:  Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our   Wednesday Feature! 28th January, 2026 poet of the month:  Cherie Hunter Day status update about orienteering with his daughter his gift of a compass after I lost my way Ribbons 9:1 (2013)   waiting all day for sunlight to lose its blue wavelengths the camera lens picks up each intrusion of shadow Skylark  2:1 (2014)    I examine the creases on the palms of my

hosts:  Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our   Wednesday Feature! 21st January, 2026 poet of the month:  Cherie Hunter Day Land’s End The county road peters out in the parking lot of a lobster pound, but the land keeps going, jutting into the bay. To get to the summer cottages visitors travel a double-rutted dirt road that narrows to a single mud-packed path around boulders on the final approach to the mud

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