A FRIDAY FEATURE Host: Gauri Dixit Mentor: Kanjini Devi Prompter for February : Patricia J. Machmiller 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 1st of the previous month to the 30th or 31st of the previous month. FEEDBACK GUIDELINES ( Included as a guideline, please do not be constrained

editors on haikuKATHA : Shalini Pattabiraman, Vidya Shankar, Firdaus Parvez and Kala Ramesh Guest Editor: K. Ramesh Featured Poet: Joanna Ashwell A Thursday Feature February 12, 2026   Lost and Found It rolls out of the cupboard unexpectedly.  I had forgotten that it was there.  The ball with the tiny teeth marks.  All your toys were placed in a bag and packed away in the shed but this has found a way back into my memory.  heart strings every bounce and spin the puppy’s end

hosts:  Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our   Wednesday Feature! 11th February, 2026 poet of the month:  Neal Whitman dogs on the beach happy to be with other dogs — at the airport how much I despise all those other people Kernels, Summer 2013 one summer morning the circus came to town by nightfall my best friend and I made plans how we could join the troupe Diogen pro Kultura Magazi

A TUESDAY FEATURE hosts:  Padma Rajeswari, K. Ramesh guest editor:   Shloka Shankar Only the unpublished  poems (that are never  published on any  social media platform/journals/anthologies) posted here for each prompt will be considered for Triveni Haikai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

hosts : Sanjuktaa Asopa & Aparna Pathak hard frost — the snail-hammerings of a song-thrush -Alan Summers (First published in Muttering Thunder, vol1, 2014, ed.Al lan Burns with Ron Moss; Runner-up The Haiku Calendar Competition, 2015; Blithe Spirit 33.3, August 2023)

A FRIDAY FEATURE Host: Gauri Dixit Mentor: Kanjini Devi Prompter for February : Patricia J. Machmiller 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 1st of the previous month to the 30th or 31st of the previous month. FEEDBACK GUIDELINES ( Included as a guideline, please do not be constrained

editors on haikuKATHA : Shalini Pattabiraman, Vidya Shankar, Firdaus Parvez and Kala Ramesh Guest Editor: K. Ramesh Featured Poet: John Zheng A Thursday Feature February 5, 2026   Mid October in the Smoky Mountains by John Zheng We drive to see the fall foliage, but the cascades of color look as dull as a small town’s faded murals. At an overlook, an old couple tell us that it’s because there hasn’t been enough rain during the year. Then, for two days, thunderstorms and li

hosts:  Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our   Wednesday Feature! 4th February, 2026 poet of the month:  Neal Whitman in winter nightfall is much like the dropping of a theatre curtain the show is over, go home Eucalypt 33, 2022 Distinguished Scribbler chosen by Amelia Fielden despots fear poets who welcome readers to have the last word — a rule of dictatorship is to control the narrative red lights, June

A TUESDAY FEATURE hosts:  Padma Rajeswari, K. Ramesh guest editor:   Shloka Shankar 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