hosts:  Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our   Wednesday Feature! 3rd December, 2025 poet of the month:  Michele L. Harvey again and again  that deep dive into nothingness…  unfathomable  that the pearl of my life  is beyond definition  Tanka Café Fall 2019  Winner Readers’ Choice  a fall cricket  sings alone on the porch  I too, wonder  about being born too late  or too soon Skylark, Winter 2015 be still

A TUESDAY FEATURE hosts:  Padma Rajeswari, K. Ramesh guest editor:  Joanna Ashwell     Only the unpublished  poems (that are never  published on any  social media platform/journals/anthologies) posted here for each prompt will be considered for Triveni Haikai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

SUBMISSION calendar  | december 2025 host : Lakshmi Iyer DAILY SUBMISSIONS: 1. Haiga Online https://www.dailyhaiga.org/submissions/   2. Haikuniverse https://haikuniverse.com/submit/ 3. Mainichi Daily News https://mainichi.jp/english/contact/haiku/   4. Black and White Haiga/Haisha https://ourbesthaiga.blogspot.com/ 5. Five Fleas Itchy Poetry https://fivefleas.blogspot.com/ h ttps://fivefleas.blogspot.com/ 6. Heliosparrow https://heliosparrow.com/submi

hosts : Sanjuktaa Asopa & Aparna Pathak   winter rain my employment history all on one page                - Cherie Hunter Day (First Place in Pinewood Haiku Contest 2008; published in Wisteria #9 (April 2008)

A FRIDAY FEATURE Host: Gauri Dixit Mentor: Kanjini Devi Prompter for November : Gauri Dixit 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

host : Rupa Anand 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: Neena Singh Featured Poet: Alan Peat A Thursday Feature 27th November Introduction: Walking the Line Between Prose and Poem The haibun is a quiet miracle of fo

hosts:  Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our   Wednesday Feature! 26th November, 2025 poet of the month:  Reid Hepworth Reid, we thank you warmly for sharing your poems and for your thoughtful responses to our questions. More about the poet: Background: Reid Hepworth  has been enamoured with words and storytelling since childhood. Even though being a writer was a lifelong goal, she didn’t start writing hai

A TUESDAY FEATURE hosts:  Padma Rajeswari, K. Ramesh guest editor:  C.X. Turner     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   mist an autumn-colored dog appears and disappears -Nikolay Grankin ( 36th ITO EN Oi Ocha Shinhaiku contest, Merit award )