Works of Rowan Beckett Minor

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View Rowan's Current Haiku VITA (2024-current)

View Rowan's Full Haiku VITA (2017-current)

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Books

• Radical Women: a book of femku (2017, OOP)

          free ebook coming soon
• inkblots: revealing my story to the therapist (2019, OOP)

          free ebook coming soon
• Red Flags (2020, Title IX Press)

          read for free
• The New Norm (2020, Proletaria Press)

          read for free
• Recycled Virgin (2020, HUMAN/KIND Press)

           to purchase, contact Rowan
• Hot Girl Haiku (2022, Cuttlefish Books)

           to purchase, contact Rowan

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Interviews:
• NaHaiWriMo: Meet the Prompter

• The Haiku Foundation's New to Haiku

• 2023 Trailblazer Contest Winners

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Book Reviews by Rowan:
• #FemkuMag 35: Bookmarks by Kelly Sargent

• Cemetery Dance: Obscene Folklore by Mer Whinery

• #FemkuMag 36: Evergreen by C.X. Turner

• #FemkuMag 36: My Hennaed Hand by Katherine E Winnick

• Cemetery Dance: The Exorcist’s House: Genesis by Nick Roberts

• Cemetery Dance: The Bone Picker by Devon A. Mihesuah

• #FemkuMag 38: Broken China by Bernadette O'Reilly

• Interstellar Flight Magazine: Mexicans on the Moon by Pedro Iniguez

• Cemetery Dance: The Haunting of Room 904 by Erika T. Wurth

• Cemetery Dance: Haint Country edited by Matthew R. Sparks and Olivia Sizemore

• Cemetery Dance: Hospital of Haunts edited by Heather Daughrity​

• #FemkuMag 39: Crazy Bitches by Roberta Beary

• #FemkuMag 39: a good possible year for an apocalypse by Daniel Shank Cruz

• #FemkuMag 39: the forest i know by Kala Ramesh

• #FemkuMag 39: Mapping the Borderlands by Barbara Sabol

• #FemkuMag 39: Random Blue Sparks by Debbie Strange

• Wales Haiku Journal, Summer 2025: The San Francisco Haiku Anthology: Volume Two

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Selected Poems:

 

deep shade

a double-dog-dare

to eat one worm
          2025 NCPS Bloodroot Haiku Award, Honorable Mention
 

 

strangers

in my childhood home

wild cherry

          2024 Vancouver Cherry Blossom Haiku Contest, Honorable Mention
 

 

inkblots

the therapist finds

a darker shade of me
           Mayfly 77

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record high
our secret spot
filling with tourists

          The Heron’s Nest, Vol. XXV, No. 3

 

rain all day
the scent of manure
doesn’t let up

          Poetry Pea, Issue 2:23

 

skin on skin
a ripened mango
offers its sweetness

           Presence, Issue 74

 

worm moon
this pain
bone deep

          Shamrock, Issue 45
 

genderless all my life in a whale’s carcass
          Whiptail, Issue 7

 

stars on stars ever growing my boyhood

          Prune Juice, Issue 40

 

from swallow to tail a ghost town hosts the body before​​​

          2023 Trailblazer Contest: Tanka, Winning Poem
 

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