We're delighted to announce one of our acts for the next MUSHAIRA is our very own Gabrielle Bates (@gabriellebates.bsky.social)! October 24th 2025, doors at 7 at Cafe OTO www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the87... Mushaira is a live literature reading series featuring authors published by indie presses.

Poems by Kyle Carrero Lopez, Soham Patel, and this one by @gabriellebates.bsky.social: www.thebeliever.net/the-letter/

trying to force myself to share at least the occasional poem, now that I'm throwing new work against the walls. this one was published in Southern Indiana Review 🖤 I wrote it in a time when I had not really slept for many months and was going insane.

Looking forward to publishing this beautiful collection of poems by Gabrielle Bates @gabriellebates.bsky.social 📖 Judas Goat, coming to the UK and Ireland in October 2025. Pre-order now: tinyurl.com/JudasGoat87 #letscreate #the87press #indiepress #SupportIndiePublishers #literature #preorder

Today’s poem is selected by Gabrielle Bates (@gabriellebates.bsky.social) as part of the 20th anniversary of Read A Little Poetry. “Radio, Radio” appeared in Radio, Radio by Ben Doyle, published by Louisiana State University Press, 2000. Shared here with deep gratitude.

“How many nights have I done this. Whittled / a carousel out of my hands. Invited to bed their / wooden breath.” — @gabriellebates.bsky.social , “Carousel” www.guernicamag.com/carousel/

Have a look at the gorgeous cover for Judas Goat by Gabrielle Bates 😍 @gabriellebates.bsky.social We will be bringing this poetry collection to the UK and Ireland in October 2025. Pre-order now: tinyurl.com/JudasGoat87

Bring. It. On...💗🌺🎉🐐

🎀 UK/Ireland Cover Reveal and Preorder Link Judas Goat (the87press edition) coming Oct 24, 2025

Early registration is now open for our craft lab on June 8, "Pressing at the Barrier," led by @gabriellebates.bsky.social! Register by May 18th to take advantage of our early discount & save $15. Limited financial aid available–apply by May 18th. Register at brooklynpoets.org/events/all/p...

Today’s class focuses on poems from @ruthawad.bsky.social’s Outside the Joy & @gabriellebates.bsky.social Judas Goat 🌟

New episode up with @gabriellebates.bsky.social & @patrycjasara.bsky.social ! This was such a special conversation on art, language and friendship ❤️. www.musingsoftheartist.com/episodes-2/g...

We're very excited to have @gabriellebates.bsky.social joining the87press! We will be bringing her poetry collection, Judas Goat, to the UK and Ireland in October 2025. Gabrielle Bates’ electrifying debut questions what it means to love another person and how to exorcise childhood fears.

back in the PNW for the first time since i moved away 💚 it was a dream to read at Powell’s, especially with my artwife & @tinhouse.bsky.social pressmate, @gabriellebates.bsky.social. shoutout to our brilliant editor, Alyssa Ogi

Wrote a poem from the perspective of an ice swan melting & McNeese Review was kind to publish it. I thought this might be one of those odd personal experiments no one would want, with a pulse only I could feel—glad to be wrong 🤍

Can't wait for the COSMIC TANTRUM book tour to celebrate @sarahlynwrites.bsky.social stunning debut⚡ @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social in Seattle on April 10, 7 pm, w/the mesmerizing @gabriellebates.bsky.social. I'll be reading a preview of my next novel, TERRY DACTYL, masks required because we love you💞

Some truly amazing poems by @gabriellebates.bsky.social !!! Blown away. Thank you, Gabrielle, for your gift. #poetry, #poetrybook, #poems, @tinhouse.bsky.social tinhouse.com/book/judas-g...

Read & listen to this stunning piece “One Two” by @gabriellebates.bsky.social in our Fall 2024 issue! kenyonreview.org/piece/one-two/

✉️ this week's newsletter, featuring @gabriellebates.bsky.social & more... bradlisti.substack.com/p/how-to-rem...

Thank you so much for having me on your show, Brad! OtherPpl is wonderful; I loved being a guest 💗

this poem wow (“six apologies, lord” by Olena Kalytiak Davis)

@gabriellebates.bsky.social Recommendation: Song and The Orchard by Brigit Pegeen Kelly ( BOA Editions ) @westbranchmagazine.bsky.social westbranch.blogs.bucknell.edu/this-long-wi... and from Plume - plumepoetry.com/uncovering-w...

—Nazim Hikmet, trans. by Randy Blasing & Mutlu Konuk

NBCC member @sharalessley.bsky.social, editor-at-large for West Branch, edited a feature on the 30th anniversary of Brigit Pegeen Kelly's "SONG," including essays by David Baker, @amitmajmudar.bsky.social, @gabriellebates.bsky.social, and C. Dale Young:

Happy birthday to my first book, Judas Goat 🎀 She pairs well with Kristeva’s Powers of Horror, the oeuvre of Brigit Pegeen Kelly, growing up religious, death thoughts, tenderness despite, the long horizontal pupils of prey animals, and holding on close to your dog.

I feel like someone should write about these together

Calling all #BrigitPegeenKelly fans! Five new #essays on the 30th anniversary of SONG by @davidbakerpoet.bsky.social @amitmajmudar.bsky.social @gabriellebates.bsky.social C. Dale Young, and yours truly. Please help us celebrate this singular #poet! 🎉🐐 westbranch.blogs.bucknell.edu/this-long-wi...

A GIFT!!

I can’t think of anyone better to write about this book

Last year I received one of the most intimidating and meaningful invitations of my life, to contribute an essay to this West Branch retrospective on Brigit Pegeen Kelly’s SONG. westbranch.blogs.bucknell.edu/this-long-wi...

Another matching opportunity from poet Eduardo Corral ❤️

I am SO excited to be doing an event with @therakha.net at Phinney Books on Feb 11 to celebrate his English debut novel The Dissenters (@graywolfpress.bsky.social) 💛 Youssef’s U.S. book tour only has four stops & we are so lucky Seattle is one of them—I hope you’ll mark your calendar & join us

So excited for this event! My copy of Playworld arrived in the mail today ♥️♥️♥️

From @gabriellebates.bsky.social's book, Judas Goat: bookshop.org/a/862/978195... #poem #poets #gabriellebates #books #writers

Gabrielle Bates in the new Kenyon Review @kenyonreview.bsky.social @gabriellebates.bsky.social

“If I write myself into a state, does that make the state false?” - @gabriellebates.bsky.social

Finally picked up the new Jenny George book After Image & it’s just so beautiful—short poems that render both abundance and its loss, making complex arguments about form and death and harm and so much else with astounding brevity

Friendly reminder that the Brew & Forge Book Fair is currently open ♥️ You can buy a signed copy of Judas Goat there, along with many other books—all proceeds this year go to Addameer, a Palestinian human rights group doing important work. www.brewandforge.com/product-page...

Received a dream assignment from Public Display Art to respond to Hayv Kahraman’s exhibition ‘Look Me in the Eyes’ at the Frye 🥺 Written in a bold, feverish rush amidst the chaos of a move earlier this month, with gratitude to the editors for the free reign publicdisplay.art/article/208

If you purchase Lena Khalaf Tuffaha’s award-winning collection SOMETHING ABOUT LIVING or any of Lena's other incredible collections from Open Books, all proceeds will go straight to HEAL Palestine, a humanitarian organization chosen by Lena ♥️ open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/tuf...

thinking about this W.S. Merwin poem (“Rain Light”)

Seattle’s bookstore dedicated to poetry (one of the only poetry bookstores in the world), host of the amazing @workshops4gaza.bsky.social online shop, the magical Open Books: A Poem Emporium is now on bluesky! Follow, add to to your literary/poemy starter packs, etc ✨ @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social

We’re hosting an online poetry reading with @biidaasamose.bsky.social as well as Natalie Diaz and Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio on December 5th! Come join us, all funds go to the Sameer Project, which is providing a critical lifeline for Palestinian survival ✨

From Judas Goat by @gabriellebates.bsky.social

This new love poem by Nick Martino (just came out in Passages North) is so beautiful—perfect music

First day of the @tinhouse.bsky.social autumn workshops! The sun came out & I love all the poets; feeling very lucky to be here ♥️

for anyone trying to extricate yourself from the clutches of Amazon: bookstores make more than a third of their money between now & New Year’s, & most bookstores ship nationwide 💌

happy birthday to my brilliant friend Gabrielle Bates, fellow fire child of the South in our city of drizzle, who reminds me to stay hot and stay hungry