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. *** haikaiTALKS   Special Guest Poet :

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

SUBMISSION calendar  | January 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/submis

hosts:    Kashinath Karmakar, Neena Singh, Amoolya Kamalnath and Rohan Kevin Broach indianKUKAI #52: January 2026 Namaste! Hello! We welcome you to the 52nd edition of  indianKUKAI. indianKUKAI  is a quarterly haiku contest, organised by Triveni Haikai India.  Theme: first sunrise The word need not be used in the haiku, but the haiku should show the topic clearly. Poets are invited to write and submit their haiku on this theme during the allotted time.  Please do not submit

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: Peter Newton A Thursday Feature January 1, 2026   Shadow List Peter Newton   Certain topics I try to approach with caution in the writing of haiku:

triveni spotlight A FEATURE EVERY ALTERNATE DAY hosts : Anju Kishore and Mohua Maulik GUEST EDITOR: Mohua Maulik 1st January 2026 triveni spotlight January 2026 All the time I pray to Buddha I keep on killing mosquitoes.   —Kobayashi Issa (Tr by Robert Hass)    <> <> <> 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 tha

hosts:  Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our   Wednesday Feature! 31st December, 2025 poet of the month:  Michele L. Harvey it’s said an apple  doesn’t fall far from the tree  but then  I was born on a hill  with a sharp incline   Gusts, Fall/Winter 2017   all I need  in the conversation of clouds  they too  talk of comings and goings   and moments in the sun   Ribbons, Tanka Café, Winter 2010 Simple Gifts

triveni spotlight A FEATURE EVERY ALTERNATE DAY hosts : Anju Kishore and Mohua Maulik GUEST EDITOR: Vidya Shankar 31st December 2025 triveni spotlight December 2025 tailgating my mother’s history mine   —Vidya Premkumar FemkuMag, Print, March 2023    <> <> <> Ode to the One-line Haiku Coming from a free verse background, my venture into haiku was with the sole purpose of understanding, learning, and practic

A TUESDAY FEATURE hosts:  Padma Rajeswari, K. Ramesh guest editor:  Joanna Ashwell     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 allo