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haikuKATHA - Issue 54

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 Please post your feedback about the poems and the overall experience in this thre

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indianKUKAI #53 - Call for Votes!

hosts: Kashinath Karmakar, Neena Singh, Rohan Kevin Broach & Amoolya Kamalnath indianKUKAI #53 April 2026 Namaste! Hello! We welcome you to the 53rd edition of indianKUKAI theme: touch V oting period: April 19 to April 25, 2026 12 Midnight (IST) Note that INDIAN STANDARD TIME is 5:30 hours ahead of GMT Thank you for your participation in indianKUKAI #53 We received 116 submissions from all over the world . The haiku submitted have been

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haikaiTALKS: a saturday gathering! 18th April 2026 Guest poet: Keiko Izawa

haikaiTALKS: Japanese aesthetics – Mujō |a saturday gathering under the banyan tree A Disclaimer Responsibility for the originality of the haikai rests solely with the submitting poet. If anyone feels that it is similar to another haikai, they are encouraged to contact the relevant poet directly . Triveni Haikai India will take any action as recommended by the submitting poet. *** haikaiTALKS Special Guest Poet :

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SUBMISSION calendar | April 2026

SUBMISSION calendar | april 2026 host : Lakshmi Iyer DAILY SUBMISSIONS: 1. Haiga Online https://www.dailyhaiga.org/submissions/ 2. Haikuniverse https://haikuniverse.com/submit/ 3. Mainichi Daily News https://mainichi.jp/english/contact/haiku/ 4. Black and White Haiga/Haisha https://ourbesthaiga.blogspot.com/ 5. Five Fleas Itchy Poetry https://fivefleas.blogspot.com/ h ttps://fivefleas.blogspot.com/ 6. Heliosparrow https://heliosparrow.com/submissi

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TANKA TAKE HOME — 22nd April 2026 Featuring poet: Pravat Kumar Padhy

hosts: Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our Wednesday Feature! 22nd April 2026 poet of the month: Pravat Kumar Padhy Crown Shyness I came across the phrase ‘Crown shyness’ recently while reading a journal for children narrating the environment and Mother Earth. As such the tree remains one of my literary pearls. I often use a tree as a metaphor – Like a monk, it is determined/In its root of meditation

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HAIKUsutradhar : 17th April 2026

A FRIDAY FEATURE Host: Gauri Dixit Mentor: Kanjini Devi Prompter for April : Milan Rajkumar OUR MISSION 1. To provide a new poetry workshop each Friday, along with a prompt. 2. To select haiku, senryu, and haiga each month for the journal, haikuKATHA. Each issue will select poems that were posted in this forum from the 1st of the previous month to the 30th or 31st of the previous month. FEEDBACK GUIDELINES ( Included as a guideline, please do not be constrained by these wh

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THE HAIBUN GALLERY: 16th April 2026 Billie Dee - Guest Editor

Editors on haikuKATHA : Shalini Pattabiraman, Vidya Shankar, Firdaus Parvez and Kala Ramesh Guest Editor: Billie Dee Host: Srinivas Sambangi Featured Poet : W alt Whitman 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 16th April 2026 This week, we tu

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THE HAIBUN GALLERY: 23rd April 2026 Billie Dee - Guest Editor

Editors on haikuKATHA : Shalini Pattabiraman, Vidya Shankar, Firdaus Parvez and Kala Ramesh Guest Editor: Billie Dee Host: Srinivas Sambangi Featured Poet : Robert Hass 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 23rd April 2026 This week, we turn

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writeALONG! 21 April 2026

A TUESDAY FEATURE hosts: Padma Rajeswari, K. Ramesh guest editor: Aashna Goyal Only the unpublished poems (that are never published on any social media platform/journals/anthologies) posted here for each prompt will be considered for Triveni Haikai India's monthly journal -- haikuKATHA, each month. Poets are requested to post poems (haiku/senryu) that adhere to the prompts/exercises given. Only 1 poem to be posted in 24 hours. Total 2 poems per poet are allowed each

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TANKA TAKE HOME — 15th April 2026 Featuring poet: Pravat Kumar Padhy

hosts: Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our Wednesday Feature! 15th April 2026 poet of the month: Pravat Kumar Padhy her cloth soaked with tears… on the edge of curled green leaf the burden of the heavy rains Cold Moon Journal, 15 October 2000 (Ed. Roberta Beach Jacobson) Windrows You roll along the trails of forests, garden paths, backyards, and busy city streets. The melodic rustle down the hills s

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