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: Lakshmi Iyer Featured Poet: Akila G A Thursday Feature 25th December Naming Ceremony The path to the volcano at Bandung, Indonesia, winds up and down through dense vegetation. Sh

hosts:  Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our   Wednesday Feature! 24th December, 2025 poet of the month:  Michele L. Harvey she always said  “stop by for a spell”  the widow  who collected cats  and knew each herb by name   Published: Ribbons, Winter 2009 I understand   the perfection   of imperfection…   I fold his favorite shirt   carefully, stains and all   Skylark, Winter 2015     Michele, we thank you

A TUESDAY FEATURE hosts:  Padma Rajeswari, K. Ramesh guest editor:  Joanna Ashwell     Only the unpublished  poems (that are never  published on any  social media platform/journals/anthologies) posted here for each prompt will be considered for Triveni Haikai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

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

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: Lakshmi Iyer Featured Poet: Shobhana Kumar A Thursday Feature 18th December Fairy Tales Appa likes to smoke the house every evening. It is an elaborate ritual he revels in and we

hosts:  Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our   Wednesday Feature! 17th December, 2025 poet of the month:  Michele L. Harvey as if  there were magic yet  in this world  the syncing little lamps  of fireflies in the field  Ribbons, Autumn 2018   constellations  formed by fallen leaves   of a sweet gum...  I reach down  to touch the stars    MET, Spring 2008    Michele, we thank you warmly for sharing your po

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

hosts : Sanjuktaa Asopa & Aparna Pathak whaling station — the weight of rust on the snowline                -Ron C Moss (3rd Anita Sadler Weiss Memorial Haiku Awards,2007, 2nd place; Published in Dragonfly , 2007; republished in The Bone Carver by Ron C Moss, Snapshot Press, 2014)

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