haikuKATHA - Issue 52
- ravi kiran
- Feb 21
- 1 min read
Updated: Mar 1
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 thread.
Hearty congratulations to all the poets featured in our Fifty Second Issue!
Here's wishing haikuKATHA goes from strength to strength each month!
ISSUE 52 is now LIVE!!
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.


Hearty congratulations to all poets!!!
Dear Kala & Team Triveni,
Thank you so much for your hard work and dedication to present us this prized collection of poetry and prose-pietry each month! I am very eager to start reading issue 52 of haikuKATHA, with its brilliant literature. Thank you immensely for including my writings. Congratulations to all the poets! Thank you Triveni for being an inspiration to write!
Warm regards & deep gratitude,
Vaishnavi
Greatly thankful to Founder &
Managing Editor Kala
Ramesh and entire hardworking editorial team of haikuKATHA for featuring three of my Tanka for its new issue, #52, February 2026. As ever, I’m I’m hugely encouraged to keep up my writing!
Many congratulations for another wonderful issue. A delight to read and to be included. Thank you to all the team for their work and support.
Thankyou so much for this! The humongous effort in picking the best is evident in every piece.