hosts: Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our Wednesday Feature! 17th December, 2025 poet of the month: Michele L. Harvey as if there were magic yet in this world the syncing little lamps of fireflies in the field Ribbons, Autumn 2018 constellations formed by fallen leaves of a sweet gum... I reach down to touch the stars MET, Spring 2008 Michele, we thank you warmly for sharing your po

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