RobertA Beary (they/she)

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Haibun Editor ‘Modern Haiku’ Awards: Winner - Bridport & Touchstone / Finalist - Rattle 📚 CRAZY BITCHES (selected haibun), CAROUSEL, THE UNWORN NECKLACE, DEFLECTION, HAIBUN a writer’s guide

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RobertA Beary (they/she)@shortpoemz· 5d

🙏 editors #haikuKatha issue 58 for publishing my #gembun

gembun by
Roberta Beary
Who else will call you by their mother’s name when death comes calling?
all his affairs down to the marigolds

RobertA Beary (they/she)@shortpoemz· 6d

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

RobertA Beary (they/she)@shortpoemz· Jul 23

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

RobertA Beary (they/she)@shortpoemz· Jul 16

🙏 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*

RobertA Beary (they/she)@shortpoemz· Jun 26

‘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

RobertA Beary (they/she)@shortpoemz· Jun 21

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

RobertA Beary (they/she)@shortpoemz· Jun 17

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

RobertA Beary (they/she)@shortpoemz· May 28

#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

RobertA Beary (they/she)@shortpoemz· May 22

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

list ofJulie Suk Award longlist finalists.

RobertA Beary (they/she)@shortpoemz· May 11

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

RobertA Beary (they/she)@shortpoemz· May 10

#happymothersday Winning entry #MovingWords #ArlingtonArts

RobertA Beary (they/she)@shortpoemz· May 8

🙏 @kj-munro.bsky.social editor Haiku Canada Review vol 20 no 1

RobertA Beary (they/she)@shortpoemz· May 7

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)

RobertA Beary (they/she)@shortpoemz· Apr 18

new #haibun 🙏 editors contemporary haibun online 22.1

RobertA Beary (they/she)@shortpoemz· Apr 18

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

RobertA Beary (they/she)@shortpoemz· Apr 7

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

RobertA Beary (they/she)@shortpoemz· Mar 31

poem payment think i’ll keep my day job #haiku #micropoetry #haiga

poem payment
think i’ll keep
my day job

(payment is $25 check)

RobertA Beary (they/she)@shortpoemz· Mar 27

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

RobertA Beary (they/she)@shortpoemz· Mar 17

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

RobertA Beary (they/she)@shortpoemz· Mar 4

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

RobertA Beary (they/she)@shortpoemz· Feb 14

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

RobertA Beary (they/she)@shortpoemz· Jan 8

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....

RobertA Beary (they/she)@shortpoemz· Jan 1

let me know if you’d like signed copy

RobertA Beary (they/she)@shortpoemz· Dec 29

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...