haikuKATHA - Issue 51

haikuKATHA unfolding the story within a monthly journal from Triveni Haikai India

Issue 51 22 January 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 51 Please post your feedback about the poems and the overall experience in this thread. Hearty congratulations to all the poets featured in our Fifty-First Issue! Here's wishing haikuKATHA goes from strength to strength each month! ISSUE 51 is now LIVE!!

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In 2022/23, associate editors K. Ramesh, Shobhana Kumar, Madhuri Pillai, Akila G., Reid Hepworth, and Hemapriya Chellappan stepped down for personal reasons. A huge thank you to all six excellent editors. We wish them the very best.

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