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

hosts:  Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our   Wednesday Feature! 14th January, 2026 poet of the month:  Cherie Hunter Day clear night, owl night through the tissue of darkness an exchange their grip of honed surfaces my sinew and bone Tangled Hair 3 (2001) This is an example of a 1/2/2 shift. a songbird’s nest held all winter to the sky now the greening ash fills in between its branches somet

hosts:  Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our   Wednesday Feature! 7th January, 2026 poet of the month:  Cherie Hunter Day limbs after leaf fall we sort out solutions to x and y whole numbers without any remainders for Want (2017) Ornithopter Press so few women make careers in science through a microscope the beauty of an amoeba as it changes shape Tanka 2020, Red Moon Press (2020)   Cherie, we thank you w

hosts:  Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our   Wednesday Feature! 31st December, 2025 poet of the month:  Michele L. Harvey it’s said an apple  doesn’t fall far from the tree  but then  I was born on a hill  with a sharp incline   Gusts, Fall/Winter 2017   all I need  in the conversation of clouds  they too  talk of comings and goings   and moments in the sun   Ribbons, Tanka Café, Winter 2010 Simple Gifts

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

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

hosts:  Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our   Wednesday Feature! 10th December, 2025 poet of the month:  Michele L. Harvey I can hear them crashing through the underbrush and breaking branches those imps of unbridled ire who bide in my monkey mind Red Lights, Vol. 16, No. 1, 2020 do not fret over living a quiet life silence is what every note needs to make music Eucalypt Issue 34, 2023, Scribble Award win

hosts:  Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our   Wednesday Feature! October 29th, 2025 poet of the month:  Marilyn Shoemaker Hazelton overnight  the leafing returns  to this dying oak  beneath my hand  such desire for spring tinywords Issue 11.2 Basho's crow under an endless sky from that bare branch calls to the poet look up! now! now! International Tanka  Nov. 16  2024  Learning to Wait On our last trip to

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