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TANKA TAKE HOME — 1st April 2026 Featuring poet: Pravat Kumar Padhy
hosts: Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our Wednesday Feature! 1st April 2026 poet of the month: Pravat Kumar Padhy sublime smiles the painting portrays I adjust to live rewinding the coil of time in the shadows of my loneliness Notes From the Gean, Vol 2 Issue 2, 2010 (Tanka Ed. H. Gene Murtha) withered flowers I gather with love and care closing my eyes in the garden of memories I dream the greatn

Firdaus Parvez
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February 11, '26 Featuring poet: Neal Whitman
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

Suraja Roychowdhury
Feb 115 min read


Tanka Take Home:February 4, '26 Featuring poet: Neal Whitman
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

Suraja Roychowdhury
Feb 44 min read


TANKA TAKE HOME — 14th January '26 Featuring poet: Cherie Hunter Day
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

Suraja Roychowdhury
Jan 143 min read


TANKA TAKE HOME — 7th January '26 Featuring poet: Cherie Hunter Day
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

Suraja Roychowdhury
Jan 73 min read


TANKA TAKE HOME — 31st December '25 Featuring poet: Michele L. Harvey
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

Firdaus Parvez
Dec 31, 20252 min read


TANKA TAKE HOME — 24th December '25 Featuring poet: Michele L. Harvey
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

Firdaus Parvez
Dec 24, 20252 min read


TANKA TAKE HOME — 17th December '25 Featuring poet: Michele L. Harvey
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

Firdaus Parvez
Dec 17, 20253 min read


TANKA TAKE HOME — 10th December '25 Featuring poet: Michele L. Harvey
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

Firdaus Parvez
Dec 10, 20252 min read
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