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Rowan Beckett Minor
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Melungeon | queer | genderless | disabled | progressive | writer | activist | feral
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Results of the 17th Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest are out and I am honored to have a #haiku selected!! Forever thankful to the judges and #contest coordinators 🫶🏻

#poetry #poems #butterfly #garden #spring #writingcommunity
November 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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tinywords.com

playground
within
the
rolling
leaves
a
hollow

-martin gottlieb cohen
https://tinywords.com/2025/11/10/43495/
November 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Thrilled to have these two #haiku featured in my favorite little #punk zine Suspect Device with the theme “on the road.” Thanks to editor Tim Gardiner for publishing them both, as well as for nominating my #poem “driving through” for a Touchstone Award 😍

#poetry #ontheroad #writing
November 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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horrorsenryu.bsky.social
sooner or later
they will come for you
wriggling maggots

— Deborah Karl-Brandt
November 4, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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October publications are up on my blog, including a special announcement! Take a look and let me know which poem resonates with you the most 🫶🏻

#haiku #poems #poetry #writing
October 2025 Publications
Publications: midsummer heattossing and turningaround the baby bump Hedgerow, Issue 150too sickto carry to termstinging nettle Haiku Canada Review, October 2025fireflies another nigh...
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November 4, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Another spooky #poem for #Halloween 👻 can’t wait to put together a #horror #haiku manuscript!
horrorsenryu.bsky.social horror senryu journal @horrorsenryu.bsky.social · 19d
abandoned RV
on the winding backroad
a severed tongue

— Rowan Beckett Minor
October 31, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Thanks to Thomas Tilton over at @horrorsenryu.bsky.social for publishing this #horror #haiku on #halloween!
horrorsenryu.bsky.social horror senryu journal @horrorsenryu.bsky.social · 19d
a skeleton key
beneath the welcome mat
drips of blood

— Rowan Beckett Minor
October 31, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Only ONE DAY left to submit your work to Prune Juice! We're looking for your best senryu and related forms of #poetry, including #kyoka, #haibun, #gembun, #haiga, and #sequences. This month we are especially interested in work exploring politics.
#WritingCommunity
#submissions
#poetrysubmissions
October 30, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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I swear Circle of Salt is my new favorite little journal! Thanks to editor Kelly Sauvage Moyer for giving this haiku a home! 😍🖤🫶🏻

#haiku #tarot #autumn #halloween #poetry
October 29, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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My September 2025 Publications are up! Be sure to let me know in the comments which poem was your favorite 🫶🏻

#haiku #senryu #poetry #author #writingcommunity

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September 2025 Publications
Publications:stopping for gasin the middle of nowherecricket song Creatrix, Issue 70rain again. . .church bells echoingafter the funeral          Creatrix, Issue 70muggy eveninga vial of lake...
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October 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Here's the #writing activity I accomplished in September: danielshankcruz.com/2025/10/01/w... #haiku #senryu #poetry
Writing Activity, September 2025
Since January 2021, I’ve been keeping a list of my writing activity for each month (here’s last month’s). I do so partly as a form of encouragement for myself to show that I am still able to do som…
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October 1, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Thrilled to have this little witchy senryu in Circle of Salt! Special thank yous to editor Kelly Moyer for publishing this one! 🫶🏻

#senryu #poem #poetry #hoodoo #witch
September 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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horrorsenryu.bsky.social
record heat
thousands of fish
dead on the shore

— Violet Avery Hall
September 28, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Traveling Outside of Our Routines: Finding Haiku Inspiration
As the airplane reached cruising altitude on my way to Haiku North America this week, I was reminded of a poem I wrote a few years ago. This senryu was… The post Traveling Outside of Our Routines: Finding Haiku Inspiration appeared first on The Haiku Foundation.
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September 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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still wearing white
long after summer’s end
wild jasmine

#haiku #senryu
#poetry #micropoetry
#3lines
September 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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new year's dawn
and everyone's birthday
wild chrysanthemums

- Deborah A. Bennett
The Haiku Foundation,
Haiku Dialogue, January 2025
September 23, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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horrorsenryu.bsky.social
even in death
there’s something on her mind
wriggling maggots

— Kimberly Kuchar
September 23, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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train tea . . .
a dream steeps
in snowshine

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Cold Moon Journal, September 18, 2025

#haiku #poetry #micropoetry
September 21, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Per Diem - Haiku of the Day! Thanks Richa and Vidya for the honour!

#haiku #micropoetry #writingcommunity
September 22, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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I’ve got a new book review up, thanks to Interstellar Flight Press. Tim Burton: Designing Worlds is a must-have for any Burton fan.

#booksky #art #writing #books #TimBurton
A Look Into Tim Burton: Designing Worlds
Book Review: Tim Burton: Designing Worlds
magazine.interstellarflightpress.com
September 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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horrorsenryu.bsky.social
death bed
I fluff the pillows
for someone else

— Roberta Beach Jacobson
September 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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#FemkuMag is open for submissions until September 30. Visit the website at femkumag.wixsite.com/home for more details.

#haiku #senryu #tanka #kyoka #haibun #cherita
September 16, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Thanks to @horrorsenryu.bsky.social for publishing this!
horrorsenryu.bsky.social horror senryu journal @horrorsenryu.bsky.social · Sep 15
white sage
the mummified cat’s
open mouth

— Rowan Beckett Minor
September 15, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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horrorsenryu.bsky.social
college town
the hitchhiking student
no one else sees

— Rowan Beckett Minor
September 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM