haikuKATHA - Issue 52

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!!

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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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