haikuKATHA unfolding the story within a monthly journal from Triveni Haikai India
Issue 40 22 February 2025 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: Milind Mulick
ISSUE 40
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Hearty congratulations to all the poets featured in our Fortieth ISSUE!
Here's wishing haikuKATHA goes from strength to strength each month!
ISSUE 40 is now LIVE!!
Earlier in the year, 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.
***** Maha huge congratulations to all our contributors!! It's a massive issue.
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HAPPY NEWS!
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13 haibun features in the CONTEMPORARY HAIBUN ANTHOLOGY 2025, (published by Red Moon Press) which were picked up from haikuKATHA nominations!
Huge congratulations to all our poets. Thank you for entrusting your best work to us.
Congratulations to the four editors of The Haibun Gallery, and our proofreader!
13 pieces have made their way into the anthology!
Mona Bedi
Twisted (haikuKATHA #28
Dru Philippou
The Way Home (haikuKATHA 29)
Joanna Ashwell
Taking the Long Way Home (haikuKATHA #31)
Shawn Blair
Chaos (haikuKATHA #32)
Lorraine Haig
Missing (haikuKATHA #32)
In his hands (haikuKATHA #35)
Sundowning (haikuKATHA #30)
Trapped (haikuKATHA #37)
C.X. Turner
Beneath a Canopy of Quiet (haikuKATHA #36)
Celebrating the Birthday (haikuKATHA #36)
Sandip Chauhan
In the Gaps (haikuKATHA #37)
Nalini Shetty
An Unlauded Strand (haikuKATHA #38)
Kala Ramesh
The Pull (haikuKATHA #38)
Maybe a few more are still there, waiting to be traced!
Thank you, Kala Ramesh, for making it all possible. My gratitude to you and the THI Associate editors and to Ravi Kiran... as well as to the talented writers who share comments and who inspire. I'm honored that one of my haiku was selected for Issue 40 of haikuKATHA. What a striking collection it is!
Sincerely,
Sherry Reniker
Wow, I've just read the issue what a bumper treat. Congratulations to haikuKATHA for all the presentations and networking that are bringing the beautiful form of haiku to a wider audience. So many wonderful poems in the issue, I am constantly amazed at how all the team brings it together each month. Thank you.
I've just downloaded this to read later, it is always such an enjoyable read and I am honoured to be included. Thank you so much to all the team and writers for their hard-work in putting this together.
Going through this beautiful issue on another chilly morning here in Canada. My congratulations to all the featured poets and the hardworking and dedicated editors who make this possible every month! Bravo 👏
Maha huge congratulations to all our contributors!! It's a massive issue.
Please read all the pages and give us feedback here :)) We would love to read them and treasure them here, always! Whatever you write in social media, copy-paste here. Thank you.