haikaiTALKS: Japanese aesthetics: Shibumi |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. *** Special Guest Poet : Keiko Izawa

triveni spotlight A FEATURE EVERY ALTERNATE DAY hosts : Anju Kishore and Mohua Maulik GUEST EDITOR: Namratha Varadharajan 21st February 2026 triveni spotlight February 2026 hopping bird  i hope you found someone  to still you  —Alan Peat haikuKATHA issue 5    <> <> <> Liminal Haiku Some haiku do more than place the reader in a moment; they stir something—humor, tenderness, unease, recognition. They pay clos

A FRIDAY FEATURE Host: Gauri Dixit Mentor: Kanjini Devi Prompter for February : Patricia J. Machmiller 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 1st of the previous month to the 30th or 31st of the previous month. FEEDBACK GUIDELINES ( Included as a guideline, please do not be constrained

editors on haikuKATHA : Shalini Pattabiraman, Vidya Shankar, Firdaus Parvez and Kala Ramesh Guest Editor: K. Ramesh Featured Poet: Jacek Margolak A Thursday Feature February 19, 2026   Reminding I take the train. Dreaming of one with puffing steam. The station. The streets of my hometown. I don't recognize anything. home again all my shoes are too small Jacek Margolak Posted in The Haibun Gallery: January, 2026 Comments: Ezra Pound’s poem titled “In a Station of the Metr

triveni spotlight A FEATURE EVERY ALTERNATE DAY hosts : Anju Kishore and Mohua Maulik GUEST EDITOR: Namratha Varadharajan 19th February 2026 triveni spotlight February 2026 morning solitude  the scrape of hard butter  across toast —Bryan Rickert haikuKATHA issue 16    <> <> <> Liminal Haiku Some haiku do more than place the reader in a moment; they stir something—humor, tenderness, unease, recognition. They

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

A TUESDAY FEATURE hosts:  Padma Rajeswari, K. Ramesh guest editor:   Shloka Shankar 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 eac

triveni spotlight A FEATURE EVERY ALTERNATE DAY hosts : Anju Kishore and Mohua Maulik GUEST EDITOR: Namratha Varadharajan 17th February 2026 triveni spotlight February 2026 fancy footwork  a pigeon between  the cafe tables —Robert Kingston haikuKATHA issue 26    <> <> <> Liminal Haiku Some haiku do more than place the reader in a moment; they stir something—humor, tenderness, unease, recognition. They pay c

hosts : Sanjuktaa Asopa & Aparna Pathak lost in my digital footprint ... the weight of snow - Jacob Salzer (First published in Kingfisher #2, December 2020. Also appears in Unplugged:Haiku & Tanka, Lulu Press Inc., 2022)