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Rowan Beckett Minor @waitingforrowan.bsky.social · 9d

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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Rowan Beckett Minor @waitingforrowan.bsky.social · 11d

Congratulations on selling copies of your book at HNA! It’s such a good one! Also hella excited for your poems in #FemkuMag 😍

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Daniel Shank Cruz @shankcruz.bsky.social · 11d

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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Rowan Beckett Minor @waitingforrowan.bsky.social · 12d

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

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horror senryu journal @horrorsenryu.bsky.social · 14d

record heat
thousands of fish
dead on the shore

— Violet Avery Hall

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The Haiku Foundation @haikufound.bsky.social · 14d

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.

dlvr.it

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Amy Borgman @ireneaddie.bsky.social · 18d

still wearing white
long after summer’s end
wild jasmine

#haiku #senryu
#poetry #micropoetry
#3lines

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Deborah A. Bennett @dabennettpoet.bsky.social · 19d

new year's dawn
and everyone's birthday
wild chrysanthemums

- Deborah A. Bennett
The Haiku Foundation,
Haiku Dialogue, January 2025

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horror senryu journal @horrorsenryu.bsky.social · 20d

even in death
there’s something on her mind
wriggling maggots

— Kimberly Kuchar

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Nicholas Klacsanzky @haikuforlife.bsky.social · 21d

train tea . . .
a dream steeps
in snowshine

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Cold Moon Journal, September 18, 2025

#haiku #poetry #micropoetry

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Hifsa Ashraf @hifsays.bsky.social · 20d

Per Diem - Haiku of the Day! Thanks Richa and Vidya for the honour!

#haiku #micropoetry #writingcommunity

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Rowan Beckett Minor @waitingforrowan.bsky.social · 22d

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

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horror senryu journal @horrorsenryu.bsky.social · 23d

death bed
I fluff the pillows
for someone else

— Roberta Beach Jacobson

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Rowan Beckett Minor @waitingforrowan.bsky.social · 26d

#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

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Rowan Beckett Minor @waitingforrowan.bsky.social · 27d

Thanks to @horrorsenryu.bsky.social for publishing this!

horror senryu journal @horrorsenryu.bsky.social · 27d

white sage
the mummified cat’s
open mouth

— Rowan Beckett Minor

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horror senryu journal @horrorsenryu.bsky.social · 27d

college town
the hitchhiking student
no one else sees

— Rowan Beckett Minor

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Rowan Beckett Minor @waitingforrowan.bsky.social · 27d

Thanks, Jenn! Totally based on a true story. The Buckland Museum of Witchcraft is here in Cleveland and they have a mummified cat! There's also a lighthouse in Ohio, Fairport Harbor, that has a mummified cat.

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