Kala Ramesh

Kala Ramesh has 20 years of experience in teaching haiku and other Japanese short-form poetry. TO REGISTER: call or whatsapp 9600638831 - Odyssey, The Leisure Store. You will be sent a payment link for the registration fee. When was the last time you did something new?

Thanks to Gayatri Majumdar & The Brown Critique, for the Wood Rose Spiritual Poetry Prize 2026 - Shortlisted. It's a huge win for Haikai poetry in India. Thrilled that 'The Day Dawns for Me' was shortlisted in this contest.

haikuKATHA Haibun and gembun submissions for the May issue of haikuKATHA open up from the first of March, 2026. Kindly use the Google form given below to submit. Firdaus Parvez and Shalini Pattabiraman will be reading your submissions. forms.gle/ta6VAxZmJni5pc…

@sanjeevpoems3 Sanjeev, Thans to you and other judges for shortlisting my haibun. I assumed Japanese short-form poetry won't stand a chance! I was pleasantly surprised

Recently, I served as a judge for the Brown Critique Wood Rose Spiritual Poetry Prize 2026. We read the poems blind. Smitha Sehgal was the winner. Gayatri Majumdar, the competition's originator, sponsored it. My takeaway: Poetry is a flourishing art form, and, despite the naysayers, as long as the human form endures, folks will continue to create.

rain threads your absence this twilight hour Published in ACORN, Spring 2025 Thanks to editor Susan Antolin

tying my sari round and round the tune of a long-forgotten song Kala Ramesh haikuKATHA, Issue 43, May 2023 Check out the other poems too! …1-4910-a220-2532c8549f4e.usrfiles.com/ugd/72638b_a43…

Have you read this essay on SILENCES As Seen in Indian Aesthetics in The Living Haiku anthology? My thanks to Don Baird and Hansha Teki. livinghaikuanthology.com/poets-on-haiku…

beachcombing countless empty homes washed ashore — Kala Ramesh (India) haikuKATHA: #35, September 2024 haikucommentary.wordpress.com/2025/05/22/hai…

Shabnam, thanks for sharing my essay on the texture of silence and space. livinghaikuanthology.com/poets-on-haiku…?

Shabnam Mirchandani, I'm sharing your post. <> This is my painting entitled Stardust - dedicated to the brilliant Kala Ramesh who is so attuned to cosmic codes embedded in the orchestra of the senses. livinghaikuanthology.com/.../2670-kala-…

It's time to sharpen your wits! ANNOUNCING the Triveni Haiku Awards 2025! Submission period: June 1st to July 1st (IST) Submit your entry here: forms.gle/m6hQvEPkyuNcrX… Announcement on our website: trivenihaikai.in/post/the-trive…

@RupaHappiness This is just beautiful, Rupa

Heterodox Haiku’s “Etymology: Hybrids in Japanese Inspired Micropoetics” is out. Thank you Jerome Berglund for including my work in this anthology of Roots. Going to take my time reading it. Read archive.org/details/etymol…

@NeenaSingh7 Congratulations, Neena

Australian Haiku Society 2025 Autumn Equinox Kukai Results are announced today on International Haiku Poetry Day. The theme was ‘Autumn Flowers’. Honored to have won the 2nd Prize. Grateful to Leanne Mumford, Convenor and friends who voted for my haiku. Congratulations winners!

Very happy to have this haiku chosen for the Golden Triangle. This will be displayed on the roads of Washington DC. The theme was Bridges of Belonging.

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. earth tremors in my mind an avalanche haikuKATHA: issue 39, January 2025

. midnight rain alive with croaking frogs haikuKATHA: issue 39, January 2025

long after sunset the cuckoo’s sun-drenched song Acorn Haiku Journal # 52, spring 2024