hosts : Sanjuktaa Asopa & Aparna Pathak work day a dragonfly rests its shimmer -- Neena Singh (Selected for display at Washington DC, Golden Haiku Contest, 2026)

hosts : Sanjuktaa Asopa & Aparna Pathak surviving my childhood the moss in me - Kelly Sargent ( Frogpond, I ssue 48.2, spring/summer 2025)

hosts : Sanjuktaa Asopa & Aparna Pathak finding the old gate between our yards wild lilies - Jackquie Pearce ( Winner of Peggy Willis Lyles Haiku Award, honorable mention ,2025 & published on the Heron's Nest website; to be featured in the poet's forthcoming collection, The Warm Land )

hosts : Sanjuktaa Asopa & Aparna Pathak reunion oars too shallow oars too deep - Bill Cooper ( First published in Shamrock, reprinted in one of the poet's haiku books )

hosts : Sanjuktaa Asopa & Aparna Pathak changing kimonos between seasons . . . my ordinary life - Pamela A. Babusci ( 1st R.H. Blyth Award (World Haiku Club) 2002, HM World Haiku Review 2:2, July 2002, 1st With Words International Haiku Contest ,2008 )

hosts : Sanjuktaa Asopa & Aparna Pathak f refl es some sold ers some pac f sts - Scott Metz (The Heron’s Nest Volume XXVI.2: June 2025 )

hosts : Sanjuktaa Asopa & Aparna Pathak a cactus bloom we are all that special - Jan Stretch (The Dua Anthology 16,' a dream flickers ', ed by Ai Li, October 2025)

hosts : Sanjuktaa Asopa & Aparna Pathak for dad the smaller cairn on the summit - Tim Gardiner (Frogpond 39.3, Autumn 2016)

haikuKATHA unfolding the story within a monthly journal from Triveni Haikai India Issue 52 22 February 2026 founder and managing editor: Kala Ramesh associate editors: Ashish Narain Firdaus Parvez Priti Aisola Sanjuktaa Asopa Shalini Pattabiraman Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Vandana Parashar Vidya Shankar web editor : Ravi Kiran proofreader : Sushama Kapur cover art: Prakash Thombre ISSUE 52 Please post your feedback about the poems and the overall experience in this t