Some photos from our #poetry reading at BGSQD in NYC ❤️ 9.28.25

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#NYC! I’m reading at BGSQD today at 3:00. #gaypoetry #queerpoetry #poetry Come see me and there will be a hug in it for you. I’ll also be talking publishing, art as #resistance // and why I’ve brought back #siblingrivalrypress.

For the Queers who weren’t raptured. From my poetry book SENTENCES. Out now, link in profile.

As artists - especially LGBTQ artists - it’s time to embrace yourself, be fully who you are, support your community, support your chosen family, and don’t fucking compromise an inch on who you were meant to be. Let your superpowers shine. 🌈

Sibling Rivalry Press is proud to host the Arkansas Queer Poet Series. Its mission is to highlight LGBTQ poets with a connection to our home state of Arkansas. We’re thrilled to welcome two additions to AQPS - JC Andrews & Toni Garcia-Butler! ❤️ #poetry www.siblingrivalrypress.com/arkansasquee...

My friend Alysia Abbott’s beautiful book about her father has been turned into a beautiful film with Sofia Coppola at the helm. Get this one on your radar. Fairyland begins its release rollout in October. #films #booksky #LGBTQ

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

MY GOD, I HAVE A NEW HERO. SHE HAD THEM SO HOOKED AND THEN BAM, SHE ATE THEM, BONES AND ALL.

We're so so thrilled to announce our finalists list for the 2025 ALOCASIA Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers. We can't thank you all enough for spreading the message, applying, and sharing your words with us.

It’s all about survival. #gaypoetry #queerpoetry #indiepress #gayart #queerart Every dollar spent on Assaracus funds the entirety of Sibling Rivalry Press, and I promise, big things are coming all across the LGBTQ poetry and art and book spectrum. siblingrivalrypress.bigcartel.com

They want us scared into silence. Don’t fall for it.

WARNING: THIS LITERARY JOURNAL CONTAINS EXPLICIT GAY/QUEER POETRY including SEX, LOVE, RAGE, HUMOR, SPIRITUALITY, FUCKERY, and JOY. ASSARACUS IS BACK! #gaypoetry #queerpoetry #gayart #vintagegay #queerart siblingrivalrypress.bigcartel.com/product/assa...

The photos are a little blurry but this was the first ever Assaracus: A Journal of Gay Poetry reading on March 23, 2012 in NYC, and scanning the crowd there’s a constellation of starlight. #gaypoetry #queerpoetry

Don’t call it a comeback (Assaracus = October!) #gaypoetry #queerpoetry

Kevin, who works the door at CCBC in Palm Springs (Cathedral City actually), with my chapbook Crow in the Desert! CCBC features prominently in the book. Photo/text are from the Desert Rat Writing Residency. #gaypoetry

All I needed to do to become a morning person was spend the first 30 years of my life on the east coast and then go to the west coast

TAPPER: Hepatitis A, whooping cough, & chickenpox cases are rising in Florida. Before you made this decision to lift vaccine mandates, did your dept do any analysis of how many new cases there will be? LADAPO: Absolutely not T: You didn't even do a projection? L: It's an issue of right & wrong

Gay (as) Art

Double trouble with my friend @fathermarc.bsky.social

The many facets of us in Palm Springs.

The overall takeaway from the Epstein survivors’ press conference is that they are united and are no longer going to allow rich and powerful men to victimize, silence and intimidate them. Including the ones in Congress and the perp in the Oval Office.

My Desert Rat #Poetry #Poet Husband Best Friend Wingman

Building Assaracus Issue 26, the return issue of our journal of #gaypoetry & #queerpoetry My philosophy: IF YOU ARE NOT QUEER / QUEER #POETRY IS NOT YOUR SAFE SPACE / YOU ARE STILL WELCOME BUT YOUR COMFORT IS NOT OUR PRIORITY / OUR SURVIVAL IS Disturb / Enrapture Coming in October.

Why not?

Jumping back into publishing like

So grateful for the space to have a conversation with Charles K. Carter as part of the Sweet Sunday Chats series. We talked #poetry and #connection and #serendipity. #gaypoetry #art youtu.be/xx_ArNK99Dk?... rs

Swear to God I’m a West Coast Boy

Ooh thank you 🌻 Find my Substack & subscribe? (No paywall) Tell the world I'm here. Disability narratives (by disabled writers) are still overwhelmingly ignored. Buy a book? Review? 😉 Search me, Penny Pepper Writer, I appear - surprises me sometimes!

Desert Rat Palm Springs Bound!

How to Riot From a Wheelchair—in remembrance of those who've gone before & that acts of rebellion are not about the body's agency alone. Even while we – #disabledcommunity – become targets of successive governments #PoemsAbout #Riots @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poetrycommunity

“If someone tells you it's raining and another tells you it's dry, it's not your job to quote them both. It's your job to look out the fucking window and find out which is true.” -Jonathan Foster, journalism professor

“I Would Die 4 U” in the dark of my teenage bedroom, just the glow of the stereo, figuring out love for the first time. Whew it takes me back.

Words cannot adequately describe what a colossal disappointment our mainstream media has been during our slow descent into authoritarianism.

Toni Morrison: “I want to remind us all that #art is dangerous. I want to remind you of the history of #artists who have been murdered, slaughtered, imprisoned, chopped up, refused entrance.” (1/3) #poetry #film #booksky

Message to the National Guard

Hallelujah! Another post that should get 20,000,000+ views.

Proud for Sibling Rivalry Press to sponsor the #LGBTQ Reel #Queer film festival in Little Rock. Even little places can make a big impact and foster big community.

As expected, the corrupt Trump regime has cancelled National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowships. I recommit to using the platform and privilege I have with Sibling Rivalry Press to support marginalized communities with everything I’ve got. I’m not doing this alone. Join me?

Y’all. We had such a good time returning to our roots hosting a local LBGTQ-focused #poetry reading to kick off the Reel Queer Film Festival in Arkansas last night.

🇺🇸 National Guard soldier speaks out: “I swore an oath to defend our constitution… seeking refuge is not an act of violence. Locking people up for it is.”

@danielnterry.bsky.social the JOY this just brought me! I can't even tell you! Thank you!

Tom of Finland, The Darkroom (2021) Tom of Finland, Untitled (Robert Mapplethorpe), (c. 1978), Silver Gelatin Print, 9.88_ x 7.88 #gayart #vintagegay

Sometimes you just have to dress the part. #gay #gaypoetry 💪

History cannot be rewritten.

Julian Sands, as photographed by Edward (left) and Robert Mapplethorpe. Julian always maintained the Edward Mapplethorpe picture of him was the most iconic portrait of his career, and fans used to print out copies of it and mail it off to him to get it autographed.

New #Poem: "Small Joys" / #booksky #poetry #poems #writing #resist www.bryanborland.com/post/small-j...

Grateful to Jerry Wheeler & Out in Print for including Brotherful & Crow in the Desert in the Summer Poetry Roundup! Jerry's long been one of the biggest champions of LGBTQ books. #Booksky #poetry #gaypoetry #writing #resist www.bryanborland.com/post/brother...

I dreamed I smelled the perfume of a goddess, With notes of pomegranate and wintergreen on a heart of Cashmere, Cypress, and amber... Persephone in winter, wearing her rival as a boutonniere So fierce Hades himself could not resist her.