Srinivas Sambangi

Editors on haikuKATHA : Shalini Pattabiraman, Vidya Shankar, Firdaus Parvez and Kala Ramesh Guest Editor:   Billie Dee Host: Srinivas Sambangi Featured Poet : Rainer Maria Rilke Introduction   This five-part series explores haibun written in response to poems from the Western tradition. I think of this pairing as a kind of literary ekphrasis, not commentary, exactly, but entering a canonical field, listening, and answering back. A Thursday Feature 9th April 2026 This week, we turn to Rainer...

Editors on haikuKATHA : Shalini Pattabiraman, Vidya Shankar, Firdaus Parvez and Kala Ramesh Guest Editor:   Billie Dee Host: Srinivas Sambangi Featured Poet :   William Stafford Introduction: English-language haibun has moved well beyond the travel-journal model associated with Bashō’s Narrow Road to the Deep North.* It can hold lyric prose, lineation, concrete play, and newer experimental forms that refuse neat labels. This five-part series explores haibun written in response to poems from...

Editors on haikuKATHA : Shalini Pattabiraman, Vidya Shankar, Firdaus Parvez and Kala Ramesh Guest Editor:   Linda Papanicolaou Featured Poet :   J. Zimmerman Host: Srinivas Sambangi A Thursday Feature 26th March 2026 Missing Man J. Zimmerman Mid-November after I rake the leaves I stand at Central and First, holding the Stars and Bars. All of them died in Nam — my brother Joe, my cousin Freddy, mom's youngest brother Jack. Sometimes I just have to come out on the streets and stand with my...