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

hosts:  Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our   Wednesday Feature! 3rd December, 2025 poet of the month:  Michele L. Harvey again and again  that deep dive into nothingness…  unfathomable  that the pearl of my life  is beyond definition  Tanka Café Fall 2019  Winner Readers’ Choice  a fall cricket  sings alone on the porch  I too, wonder  about being born too late  or too soon Skylark, Winter 2015 be still

hosts:  Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our   Wednesday Feature! 26th November, 2025 poet of the month:  Reid Hepworth Reid, we thank you warmly for sharing your poems and for your thoughtful responses to our questions. More about the poet: Background: Reid Hepworth  has been enamoured with words and storytelling since childhood. Even though being a writer was a lifelong goal, she didn’t start writing hai

hosts:  Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our   Wednesday Feature! 19th November, 2025 poet of the month:  Reid Hepworth Reid, we thank you warmly for sharing your poems and for your thoughtful responses to our questions. 4. TTH: Who are your favourite tanka poets? In addition to tanka what other genres of poetry do you write or read? Tell us about some of the books you've enjoyed.  RH: Oh my gosh, there ar

hosts:  Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our   Wednesday Feature! November, 2025 poet of the month:  Reid Hepworth Reid, we thank you warmly for sharing your poems and for your thoughtful responses to our questions. 3. TTH: How do you develop a tanka? Please guide us through the stages of a poem.  Writing is an organic process (to me), I don’t try to formulate it, I just let it come out naturally. The majo

hosts:  Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our   Wednesday Feature! November 5th, 2025 poet of the month:  Reid Hepworth Reid, we thank you warmly for sharing your poems and for your thoughtful responses to our questions. Q1. TTH: Do you come from a literary background? What writers did you enjoy reading as a child? Did you write as a child?  RH: No, I don’t come from a literary background, but my parents we

hosts:  Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our   Wednesday Feature! October 29th, 2025 poet of the month:  Marilyn Shoemaker Hazelton overnight  the leafing returns  to this dying oak  beneath my hand  such desire for spring tinywords Issue 11.2 Basho's crow under an endless sky from that bare branch calls to the poet look up! now! now! International Tanka  Nov. 16  2024  Learning to Wait On our last trip to

hosts:  Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our   Wednesday Feature! October 22nd, 2025 poet of the month:  Marilyn Shoemaker Hazelton family photo: my father’s father before the booze before the house was lost before we inherited fear Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka , Volume 4 speaking of your courage and kindness 13 years later your brother brings you home again Beyond the Grave , Robert Epstein, editor

hosts:  Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our   Wednesday Feature! October 15th, 2025 poet of the month:  Marilyn Shoemaker Hazelton remembering my photo of Mt. Fuji rising taken from a high-speed train strengthens me in these days of confusion Honorable Mention Fifth Fujisan Taisho/ Mt. Fuji Tanka Awards as year follows year remembering how to be without why ... without no ... The Sacred in Contemporary Ha