haikuKATHA - Issue 54
- ravi kiran
- Apr 21
- 1 min read
haikuKATHA unfolding the story within a monthly journal from Triveni Haikai India
Issue 54 22 April 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 54
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Hearty congratulations to all the poets featured in our Fifty Fourth Issue!
Here's wishing haikuKATHA goes from strength to strength each month!
ISSUE 54 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.


Dear Managing Editor, Associate Editors, Web Editor and entire haikuKATHA team members,
I express my deeply felt gratitude and joy to you all wonderful haikuKATHA family members for featuring haiku(1), tanka(2) and tanka prose(1) in your distinguished haikuKATHA Monthly Journal, #54. As ever, I’m hugely encouraged to keep up my haikai writing in the days to come.
Warm regards to all,
Tejendra Sherchan
Nepal
Congratulations to all the writers and many thanks to the team for their wonderful support and work at putting together another inspiring issue.
Congratulations to Kali Ramesh and the entire haikuKATHA editorial team on this excellent issue. I wish all the published authors many more publications. To those who didn't make it this time, I encourage you to keep working – next month, your haiku might find its place on the magazine's pages.
Congratulations to all the haikuKATHA Team on another wonderful issue.
Congratulations to everyone published in this issue to.