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A TUESDAY FEATURE hosts:  Padma Rajeswari, K. Ramesh guest editor:  Mohua Maulik   Only the unpublished  poems (that are never  published on any  social media platform/journals/anthologies) posted here for each prompt will be considered for Triveni Haikai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

hosts : Sanjuktaa Asopa & Aparna Pathak   half time my son and I exchange our goal posts - Srinivasa Rao Sambangi (First place in Sharpening The Green Pencil Contest, 2023 )

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

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 15th, 2025 poet of the month:  Marilyn Shoemaker Hazelton remembering my photo of Mt. Fuji rising taken from a high-speed train strengthens me in these days of confusion Honorable Mention Fifth Fujisan Taisho/ Mt. Fuji Tanka Awards as year follows year remembering how to be without why ... without no ... The Sacred in Contemporary Ha

A TUESDAY FEATURE hosts:  Padma Rajeswari, K. Ramesh guest editor:  Mohua Maulik   Only the unpublished  poems (that are never  published...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   raking leaves I think of my father thinking of his father - Matthew Cariello ( Wisteria, 2009)