Featured Reader: confluence

Join me, alongside five talented haiku poets, for a live reading this Saturday, June 21, 2025, to celebrate our year as fellows for confluence haiku journal. Please contact me if you'd like the Google Meet link. More information is below:

confluence Poet Fellows Reading

Sat. 6/21 10-1130am Pacific (1-230pm Eastern, 6-730pm British Summer Time, 1030pm-1200am India Standard time)

confluence haiku journal invites you to a virtual poetry reading in celebration of its inaugural year of Poet Fellows. Six confluence Fellows (Daniel Shank Cruz, David Green, Lorraine A Padden, Nicky Gutierrez, Rowan Beckett Minor, and Vandana Parashar) will read their poems and share about their inspirations. As a journal dedicated to building the haiku community, confluence also offers all readers the opportunity to respond to the Fellows’ poems during the event, and for your responses to be published in the next confluence issue. We also invite you to read your own work during the open mic portion of the evening. We will share more details—including how to submit your responses for publication—with confluence subscribers soon. If you’re not yet a subscriber, join us for free at the confluence website.

Featured Poems by Rowan Beckett Minor:

summer solstice

morning sickness

all day long

Autumn Moon 8.2

the tissue

my body fails to pass

unripe plum

tsuri-dōrō 27

still born inside the after-black an ounce of moon

2023 Trailblazer Contest: Haiku, Winner

hell-flower

the ghost of you

still in my hollow

tsuri-dōrō 21

sun in the west

I meet my baby

in the sky

Poetry Pea 2.25

karaoke bar—

the whiteness of my

Baby Got Back

Failed Haiku 68

honky-tonk

I wear my favorite

goth boots

Failed Haiku 68

cast party—

the Magician’s tricks

to get me in bed

Hot Girl Haiku (2021, Cuttlefish Books)

the last to know

who I went home with

white girl wasted

Hot Girl Haiku (2021, Cuttlefish Books)

day moon—

my one night stand

pretends not to know me

Hot Girl Haiku (2021, Cuttlefish Books)