A FRIDAY FEATURE Host: Gauri Dixit Mentor: Kanjini Devi Prompter for October : Joanna Ashwell OUR MISSION 1. To provide a new poetry...

host : Rupa Anand editors on haikuKATHA : Shalini Pattabiraman, Vidya Shankar, Firdaus Parvez and Kala Ramesh Lorraine Haig  has stepped...

hosts:  Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our   Wednesday Feature! October 29th, 2025 poet of the month:  Marilyn Shoemaker Hazelton overnight  the leafing returns  to this dying oak  beneath my hand  such desire for spring tinywords Issue 11.2 Basho's crow under an endless sky from that bare branch calls to the poet look up! now! now! International Tanka  Nov. 16  2024  Learning to Wait On our last trip to

A TUESDAY FEATURE hosts:  Padma Rajeswari, K. Ramesh guest editor:  Mohua Maulik   Only the unpublished  poems (that are never  published...

hosts : Sanjuktaa Asopa & Aparna Pathak   solitude... the season for losing one glove - Ed Bremson (Haiku Master of the Week 3, HAIKU MASTERS, NHK WORLD, JAPAN TV,January 2018; THF Per Diem, May 2019 )

A FRIDAY FEATURE Host: Gauri Dixit Mentor: Kanjini Devi Prompter for October : Joanna Ashwell 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 b

host : Rupa Anand editors on haikuKATHA : Shalini Pattabiraman, Vidya Shankar, Firdaus Parvez and Kala Ramesh Lorraine Haig  has stepped...

hosts:  Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our   Wednesday Feature! October 22nd, 2025 poet of the month:  Marilyn Shoemaker Hazelton family photo: my father’s father before the booze before the house was lost before we inherited fear Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka , Volume 4 speaking of your courage and kindness 13 years later your brother brings you home again Beyond the Grave , Robert Epstein, editor

A TUESDAY FEATURE hosts:  Padma Rajeswari, K. Ramesh guest editor:  Mohua Maulik   Only the unpublished  poems (that are never  published on any  social media platform/journals/anthologies) posted here for each prompt will be considered for Triveni Haikai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