hosts:  Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our   Wednesday Feature! 21st January, 2026 poet of the month:  Cherie Hunter Day Land’s End The county road peters out in the parking lot of a lobster pound, but the land keeps going, jutting into the bay. To get to the summer cottages visitors travel a double-rutted dirt road that narrows to a single mud-packed path around boulders on the final approach to the mud

A TUESDAY FEATURE hosts:  Padma Rajeswari, K. Ramesh guest editor:   Andrew Shimield Only the unpublished  poems (that are never  published on any  social media platform/journals/anthologies) posted here for each prompt will be considered for Triveni Haikai India's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 19th January 2026 triveni spotlight January 2026 up in smoke ... that one promise in the ashtray   — Baisali Chatterjee Dutt haikuKATHA issue 44    <> <> <> 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

hosts: Kashinath Karmakar, Neena Singh, Rohan Kevin Broach & Amoolya Kamalnath indianKUKAI #52| January 2026 Namaste! Hello! We welcome you to the 52nd edition of indianKUKAI theme: first sunrise V oting period: January 19 to January 25, 2025 12 Midnight (IST) Note that INDIAN STANDARD TIME is 5:30 hours ahead of GMT Thank you for your participation in indianKUKAI #52. We received 100 submissions from all over the world . The haiku sub

hosts : Sanjuktaa Asopa & Aparna Pathak jan etc. dec -David Kawika Eyre (Bones, March 15 issue, 2019; later included in the poet's collection The Nothing That Is, Red Moon Press, 2021)

triveni spotlight A FEATURE EVERY ALTERNATE DAY hosts : Anju Kishore and Mohua Maulik GUEST EDITOR: Mohua Maulik 17th January 2026 triveni spotlight January 2026 em dash — going to great lengths to make a point —Bonnie J Scherer haikuKATHA issue, September 2023    <> <> <> 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 t

haikaiTALKS: Japanese aesthetics – Miyabi |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

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

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 Jastermsky A Thursday Feature January 15, 2026     Reader’s Choice Peter Jastermsky   With me, it’s best to be brief. Like Hemingway, with bull