A #poem by Bryan Borland on the occasion of being infected with respiratory gunk at the hands of nephew Oliver. (Click the link to hear this performed in full-on sick voice.) #poetry vimeo.com/1138710653?s...

I’m the lucky one in this equation. I’m proud to build bridges and save lives with Father Marc’s story of survival - turning shame into JOY and SELF-ACCEPTANCE. Watch this space for details. SRP has always been about honoring the people who broke the doors down. Marc did just that! #indiepublishing

I'm PUMPED to share a celebratory reading launching ASSARACUS ISSUE 26! Click on this link to jump into our bedroom and join nine poets featured in our relaunch sharing their work, their favorite songs, dirty jokes, serious business, and above all #queer JOY. #poetry vimeo.com/1134236524?f...

Read this one at @bryanborland.bsky.social Assaracus #Poetry reading tonight. it's called "Back Alley Gods" (2019) Back Alley Gods Worshipped in secret, Image emblazoned On the wrong side of town. Back Alley Gods Stolen from savages! It seems no one was proud To have these deities around.

LISTEN TO THE VOICE…DO YOU RECOGNIZE IT??? HE HAS LED MANY OF US INTO HYPNO BLISS!!! I LOVE THIS MAN @vasthypno.bsky.social AND I LOVE HIS PUBLISHER @bryanborland.bsky.social THANK YOU FOR THE WORK YOU BOTH DO!!!

Happy Margaret Atwood's memoir is released today to those who celebrate. (Surely I am not the only one who CANNOT WAIT to read this).

Loved loved loved sharing stories and #poetry at the Hot Springs (Arkansas) Poetry Festival over the weekend with a good group of very talented people and a great audience!

I co-sign on this #halloween playlist 🎃

Keith Haring & Juan Dubose

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Have you watched the Booker Prize 2025 shortlist films? Just scroll back down our feed to catch up or visit our website: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

When I brought Assaracus back, I wanted to make sure I included voices that aren’t afraid to be subversive - just like the poets I first fell in love with in books like An Outlaw Bible of American #Poetry. Jack Drago is one of those voices. 🔥 😈 🔥 ✊🔥 His work reminds me of John Giorno.

I have 9 new poems in @bryanborland.bsky.social’s revival of Assaracus! 😈⛓️

Illegals. Page 3 in SENTENCES.

One of the last things Jubi said to me: “Spiritually I don’t know where I’m headed, but I feel the need to explore beyond. That’s as much as I know right now.” Explore, my friend. Take it all in. As of today, it’s all yours to discover. Love you forever, Jubi Arriola-Headley. (Poet, Original Kink)

Do you have LGBTQ+ publishing questions? This FREE virtual event is for you: publishingtriangle.org/2025/10/lgbt...

So much love to Kai Coggin for curating a spirit-lifting night of storytelling with the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival. My most common “performing” pose is unconsciously placing my hand on my chest, somewhere around my heart. Hand on heart, it was a magical space. ❤️ #poetry #gaypoetry

As part of the Hot Springs (Arkansas) Documentary Film Festival, I’ll be sharing the story of Sibling Rivalry Press tomorrow night at a campfire storytelling event. Excited to be with some of my favs. #queerpoetry #gaypoetry #poetry hsdfi.org

One of my heroes.

A little taste of SRP queer and gay #poetry.

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?

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

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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