hosts: Kashinath Karmakar, Neena Singh, Amoolya Kamalnath and Rohan Kevin Broach indianKUKAI #53: April 2026 Namaste! Hello! We welcome you to the 53rd edition of indianKUKAI. indianKUKAI is a quarterly haiku contest, organised by Triveni Haikai India. Theme: touch 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 after the

hosts: Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our Wednesday Feature! 1st April 2026 poet of the month: Pravat Kumar Padhy sublime smiles the painting portrays I adjust to live rewinding the coil of time in the shadows of my loneliness Notes From the Gean, Vol 2 Issue 2, 2010 (Tanka Ed. H. Gene Murtha) withered flowers I gather with love and care closing my eyes in the garden of memories I dream the greatn

triveni spotlight A FEATURE EVERY ALTERNATE DAY hosts : Anju Kishore and Mohua Maulik GUEST EDITOR: John Pappas 1st April 2026 triveni spotlight April 2026 within permissible limits microplastics in her breast milk — Julie Schwerin One Art Haiku Anthology 2024 <> <> <> Poetry of Resistance In 2007, Mexican artist Jorge Blake created an art installation consisting of a massive monolithic 75’ by 13’ brick wall

A TUESDAY FEATURE hosts: Padma Rajeswari, K. Ramesh guest editor: Jenny Shepherd Only the unpublished poems (that are never published on any social media platform/journals/anthologies) posted here for each prompt will be considered for Triveni Haikai India's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: Swagata Soumyanarayan 31st March 2026 triveni spotlight March 2026 your argyle sweater the cigarette smoke I can’t wash out —Allyson Whipple Cold Moon Journal, 23 February 2025 <> <> <> Nostalgia “We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse

hosts : Sanjuktaa Asopa & Aparna Pathak finding the old gate between our yards wild lilies - Jackquie Pearce ( Winner of Peggy Willis Lyles Haiku Award, honorable mention ,2025 & published on the Heron's Nest website; to be featured in the poet's forthcoming collection, The Warm Land )

triveni spotlight A FEATURE EVERY ALTERNATE DAY hosts : Anju Kishore and Mohua Maulik GUEST EDITOR: Swagata Soumyanarayan 29th March 2026 triveni spotlight March 2026 wishing I could hear it my voice they say is like my mother's —Joyce Clement The Heron’s Nest, June 2025 <> <> <> Nostalgia “We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it so

haikaiTALKS: Japanese aesthetics: Ichibutsu-jitate (single-image haiku) |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. *** Sp

A FRIDAY FEATURE Host: Gauri Dixit Mentor: Kanjini Devi Prompter for March : Saumya Bansal openHALL is back 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 t