A FRIDAY FEATURE Host: Gauri Dixit Mentor: Kanjini Devi Prompter for January : Lorraine Haig 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 3rd of the previous month to the 2nd of the current month. FEEDBACK GUIDELINES ( Included as a guideline, please do not be constrained by these while prov

triveni spotlight A FEATURE EVERY ALTERNATE DAY hosts : Anju Kishore and Mohua Maulik GUEST EDITOR: Mohua Maulik 9th January 2026 triveni spotlight January 2026 days getting longer –          I part with a friend who caught a yawn from me   —Natsume Soseki ( Tr by Susumu Takiguchi)    <> <> <> The Lightness of Being Humor in haikai is what first drew me to this extraordinary genre of poetry. Humor that is

editors on haikuKATHA : Shalini Pattabiraman, Vidya Shankar, Firdaus Parvez and Kala Ramesh Lorraine Haig  has stepped down from being a mentor for this forum. Triveni Haikai India and The Haibun Gallery are grateful for her exceptional feedback and responses over  the last few years. Guest Editor: Shloka Shanker Featured Poet: Joshua St. Claire A Thursday Feature   January 8, 2026 Pease Say “Present” When I Call Your Name Joshua St. Claire   Ashlyn Ashton Braxton Brooklyn

triveni spotlight A FEATURE EVERY ALTERNATE DAY hosts : Anju Kishore and Mohua Maulik GUEST EDITOR: Mohua Maulik 7th January 2026 triveni spotlight January 2026 face reading … nothing new to say about my husband   —Lakshmi Iyer haikuKATHA issue 6    <> <> <> The Lightness of Being Humor in haikai is what first drew me to this extraordinary genre of poetry. Humor that is subtle or overt, one that makes me g

hosts:  Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our   Wednesday Feature! 7th January, 2026 poet of the month:  Cherie Hunter Day limbs after leaf fall we sort out solutions to x and y whole numbers without any remainders for Want (2017) Ornithopter Press so few women make careers in science through a microscope the beauty of an amoeba as it changes shape Tanka 2020, Red Moon Press (2020)   Cherie, we thank you w

A TUESDAY FEATURE hosts:  Padma Rajeswari, K. Ramesh guest editor:   Andrew Shimield Only the unpublished  poems (that are never  published on any  social media platform/journals/anthologies) posted here for each prompt will be considered for Triveni Haikai India's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 ea

triveni spotlight A FEATURE EVERY ALTERNATE DAY hosts : Anju Kishore and Mohua Maulik GUEST EDITOR: Mohua Maulik 5th January 2026 triveni spotlight January 2026 fresh cement — this urge to leave a paw print   —Billie Dee haikuKATHA issue 47     <> <> <> The Lightness of Being Humor in haikai is what first drew me to this extraordinary genre of poetry. Humor that is subtle or overt, one that makes me giggle

hosts : Sanjuktaa Asopa & Aparna Pathak arrowroot being heartbroken grows on you -M R Defibaugh (Frogpond, 44.2)

triveni spotlight A FEATURE EVERY ALTERNATE DAY hosts : Anju Kishore and Mohua Maulik GUEST EDITOR: Mohua Maulik 1st January 2026 triveni spotlight January 2026 the tiny arms of a tyrannosaurus rex how you like to point out my insecurities   —Susan Burch  haikuKATHA issue 37     <> <> <> The Lightness of Being Humor in haikai is what first drew me to this extraordinary genre of poetry. Humor that is subtle