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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

happy 🎂 birthday, Mama Marie A. Beary requiescat in pace Thank you for teaching me to aim high! 💕

1960 New York Times article about my mother, Marie A Beary, suing the Queens County Bar Association which at that time did not admit women lawyers

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

ito en #haiku contest (2011) august stillness a wooden soldier guards the empty sandbox

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Excited to co-host w/ poet #dickwestheimer ‘Community Reading Rattlecast Prompt Lines’ August 30, 2026 7PM ET 🙏 @rattlepoetry.bsky.social More info rattle.com/page/prompts/

poster of Rattle Magazine Prompt Lines Rattlecast on August 30,2026 cohosts are Dick Westheimer & Roberta Beary

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Excited my HOT 🔥🔥🔥HAIBUN was selected by @rattlepoetry.bsky.social creative editor Katie Dozier for its Prompt Poems Online series! Tune into tonight’s Rattlecast, I will be reading my #haibun after the live interview with guest poet Matthew Olzmann youtube.com/live/19Pj9dl...

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Matthew Olzmann: Mountain Dew, Love Poems, Humor, and Viral Poetry | Rattlecast 355

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

my son and i counting fireflies counting stars ⭐️

wishing son Nathan a happy birthday along with a picture of me with Nathan then and now and this haiku of mine: my son and i/counting fireflies/counting stars

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

As #RovingAmbassador #TheHaikuFoundation I did a #haiku poets international 🌎 meetup! Tripping the light fantastic w/wonderful @thehaikutec.bsky.social @bradfordonavonwaw.bsky.social Wiltshire 🇬🇧 Photo by The Frank Stella !

photo of haiku poets Roberta Beary and Alan Summers in Bradford on Avon England

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

thanks a mill for including *I Still Dream of You, Ben* #Mondettes @mattkendrick.bsky.social & @fictivedream.bsky.social Lovely to read Laura Black’s insights and revisit powerful stories by writer pals which first appeared in her amazing journal!

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

🙏 Haiku Society of America Merit Book Awards judges Michael Henry Lee and Michele Root-Bernstein for selecting my #haibun collection *Crazy Bitches* as a 2026 prize winner! Grateful 💕 publisher Clare MacQueen of MacQ Books

HSA judges’ commentary for #haibun collection 2026 prize winner *Crazy Bitches*

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tinywords.com @tinywords.com · 27/06/2026

boyhood dreams the weight of stones in his pocket -Marianne Paul tinywords.com/2026/06/27/49546

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

‘Verisimilitude’ a #haibun in my collection Crazy Bitches, with art by Kevin Beary

haibun Verisimilitude’ which appears in ‘Crazy Bitches’ is by Roberta Beary and the art by her brother Kevin Beary

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Onyx @advantage87.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

the cast off / the caught him line got me. that's the whole story right there

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Happy Father’s Day to all the 2nd Dads! We Love 💕 You! fisherman’s wharf / the dad who cast him off / the dad who caught him #fathersday #secondchance #haiku

Father’s Day haiku: fisherman’s wharf / the dad who cast him off / the dad who caught him

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

FREE PDF ! The HEART 💜 of HAIBUN (Buttonhook Press 2026) cover art Kevin Beary #haibun #essay #interview ojalart.com/wp-content/u...

The Heart of Haibun by Roberta Beary cover art by Kevin Beary

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

#haibun takes a bow at the #libraryofcongress 🙏 Maryland Poet Laureate Emerita Grace Cavalieri creator and host #ThePoetandThePoem for inviting me! I read 8 poems & we discussed *Crazy Bitches* (MacQ Press 2025) my haibun collection that spans 20 years.

Roberta Beary at Library of Congress with host Grace Cavalieri of The Poet and The Poem, reading haibun from *Crazy Bitches*, 3 still photographs

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

*The Heart of Haibun* new #haibun chapbook / free download 🙏 Pamelyn Castro & Jeff Streeby editors O:JA&L 2026 Master Series Mixed Forms: Haibun Buttonhook Press & 🙏 my brother Kevin Beary for the cover art! ojalart.com/buttonhook-p...

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Thrilled to see CRAZY BITCHES among the Julie Suk Award longlist finalists! Congratulations 🎊 to all !

list ofJulie Suk Award longlist finalists.

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Michael Aaron Harrington | Cinnatus @cinnatus.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Highly reccomend this book of Haibun!

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Excited to share a second book award for my haibun collection *Crazy Bitches* (MacQ, 2025) Grateful to Eric Hoffer Book Award judges and to publisher Clare MacQueen MacQueen's Quinterly

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

in honor of #mothersday i’m posting my @bridportprize.bsky.social ‘After You Self-Medicate with Roethke’s The Waking Read by Text-to-Speech App’ Roberta Beary - Poetry Joint First Prize winner, The Bridport Prize Anthology (Redcliffe Press 2022)

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

12 days to enter. Maybe you’re even now revising the story that will win the $2,500 first prize in this year’s Smokey. Don’t forget the deadline is midnight ET on May 10. 1,000 words or smaller.

Flyer for the SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2026. Image of cream coloured vintage instant camera with flash

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

new #haibun 🙏 editors contemporary haibun online 22.1

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

My book CRAZY BITCHES (MacQ 2025) named a Touchstone Distinguished Book Award HM #thehaikufoundation

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Maeve O'Sullivan @maevedos.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Just a bit of notice that I’ll be leading a beginners’ in-person #workshop in #haiku #poetry as part of this year’s Intl Litfest in #Dublin, @ilfdublin.bsky.social. It takes place on Sun 17/5 at 3pm and will include a ginko / walk around Merrion Square. (Cost €18/16). ilfdublin.com/whats-on/fes...

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Lovely to see *A Herstory of My Deformities* on the HM list! thanks 🙏 Brilliant Flash Fiction contest judges . congrats 🎊 to all!

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Gabriel Rosenstock has left us. R.I.P. He often welcomed me to Ireland. Here we were enjoying a cuppa at #thismustbetheplace (Westport,Mayo) where he found a copy of my 1st haiku collection,for which he’d kindly done a blurb in 2007. He was the soul of generosity. Photo by Héilean Rosenstock-Armi

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

a #haibun from my newest collection *Crazy Bitches* (MacQ, 2025) 🙏1st pub Presence Journal

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Submitting to *Modern Haiku* — 1st, check out our revised guidelines ! www.modernhaiku.org/submissions....

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Modern Haiku Submission Guidelines and Policies

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

From Modern Haiku editor Paul Miller HAIBUN: REVISED SUBMISSION POLICY effective immediately. Due to haibun's significantly increased popularity, haibun submissions will now be limited to one haibun per issue (so make it your best!)…

new haibun submission policy at Modern Haiku

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

forever married the bathroom door locked #haiku #10syllables 🙏editor Tony Pupello tsuri-dōrō issue 32 march/april 2026

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

valentine's day long hours in bed with nancy dŕew #haiku #micropoetry credits : Nancy Drew Anthology @silverbirch.press failed haiku issue 2 #MichaelRehling editor💜

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Alan Summers @thehaikutec.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Have you ever fancied a big challenge, written #haibun before, or never before, or curious why #prose and a #haiku poem or #tanka verse is part of this mysterious genre? www.callofthepage.org/courses/haib...

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Call of the Page - The Shape of Haibun

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Wow! I am thrilled to read this review of CRAZY BITCHES by Nathan Leslie,Professor of English, Northern Virginia CC, USA hipsteronhipster.substack.com/p/haibooom-c...

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Haibooom: Crazy Bitches by Roberta Beary storms the literary castle with Haibun magnificence

https://robertabeary.com/book/crazy-bitches/

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

for anyone fledging #haiku poets @haikufound.bsky.social has a wonderful #kigo (season words) resource in its digital library. Here is the link to the kigo list available for free download at The Haiku Foundation’s Digital Library thehaikufoundation.org/omeka/items/...

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The Five Hundred Essential Japanese Season Words · The Haiku Foundation Digital Library

The Haiku Foundation Digital Library

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Grateful to Marianne Paul for her in-depth review of CRAZY BITCHES (MacQ, 2025) published in Haiku Canada Review, reprinted MacQueen's Quinterly. You Can Read the full review www.macqueensquinterly.com/.../Paul-Rev....

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

💜💜💜what a pleasure to read this on New Year’s Eve!

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

new #flashfiction at HAD! ‘It’s Another Shit Day in December’ TY editors & @kathyfish.bsky.social substack for the prompt ! www.havehashad.com/preview/hadp...

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RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

@rattlepoetry.bsky.social 🙏 editor @timothygreen.bsky.social for featuring *CRAZY BITCHES* my #haibun collection Please have a listen and give us a ❤️ like www.youtube.com/live/nrvaU9A...

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Roberta Beary | Rattlecast 310

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