Lori A Minor is a queer, chronically ill poet and editor (#FemkuMag, Otoroshi Journal) living in Ohio. Her work has been featured in several journals including Prune Juice, The Heron’s Nest, and is/let. Lori has won awards including two shortlisted haiku for the Touchstone Award (2017, 2019). She is honored to be the finalist for the Sable Books Haiku Contest for Women (2020) and to have given a presentation on social awareness in haiku at the 2019 Haiku North America Conference. Most recently, Lori was selected to have work appear in New Resonance 12 (Red Moon Press) and Haiku 2021 (Modern Haiku Press).

3 x Short Poems

Russian roulette—
another round
of 80 proof


spring break
another trip
on acid


Saturday Night Live
our wine and cheese party
ends up the trashiest