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Bryan Borland

@bryanborland.bsky.social

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Poet / Writer / Publisher of Sibling Rivalry Press & Queer Punk Collective / Very Gay / 🦁 / Latest Books: Crow in the Desert & Brotherful / Editor of Assaracus: A Journal of Gay and Queer Poetry www.bryanborland.com

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Bryan Borland @bryanborland.bsky.social · 17h

One of my heroes.

BookBlast Official @bookblast.org · 2d

Never more pertinent than now 🕊️by legendary Beat poet & co-founder of City Lights publishers - booksellers 🙉🙈🙊

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Bryan Borland @bryanborland.bsky.social · 1d

A little taste of SRP queer and gay #poetry.

Bryan Borland @bryanborland.bsky.social · 12d

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

Bryan Borland @bryanborland.bsky.social · 13d

🐱 🖕

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Bryan Borland @bryanborland.bsky.social · 13d

#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.

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Leo Herrera @herreraimages.bsky.social · 18d

For the Queers who weren’t raptured.

From my poetry book SENTENCES. Out now, link in profile.

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Bryan Borland @bryanborland.bsky.social · 20d

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. 🌈

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Bryan Borland @bryanborland.bsky.social · 20d

Hey I left a little of myself on one of those when I visited. 😎

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Bryan Borland @bryanborland.bsky.social · 21d

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

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Bryan Borland @bryanborland.bsky.social · 21d

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

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Bryan Borland @bryanborland.bsky.social · 23d

And people all over the country who have been fired or suspended for the same “reasons” - arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

Bowen law professor and others suspended for social media posts on Charlie Kirk’s killing - Arkansas Times

Educators in Arkansas across the country are losing their jobs over social media posts they made about Charlie Kirk's death.

arktimes.com

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23d

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

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 24d

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

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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 24d

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.

The 2025 ALOCASIA Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers Finalists List.

Mukethe Kawinzi, Zoë Fay-Stindt, Brody Parrish Craig, River 瑩瑩 Dandelion, Lauren Samblanet, Bryce Baron-Sips, Danielle Shandiin Emerson, and Kyla-Yến Huỳnh Giffin.

Supported by funding from Accelerate Resilience L.A., a sponsored project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.

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Bryan Borland @bryanborland.bsky.social · 24d

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.

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Bryan Borland @bryanborland.bsky.social · 24d

Could it be…

a man and a woman are sitting at a table and the woman is pointing at the man and saying satan

ALT: a man and a woman are sitting at a table and the woman is pointing at the man and saying satan

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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 25d

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

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Bryan Borland @bryanborland.bsky.social · 25d

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

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Assaracus Issue 26: A Journal of Gay and Queer Poetry (THE RETURN ISSUE!)

Assaracus 26 A Journal of Gay and Queer Poetry The Return Issue - October 2025 978-1-943977-87-1 140 Pages Publication Date: October 28, 2025 This...

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Bryan Borland @bryanborland.bsky.social · 26d

If you didn’t say that I wouldn’t have even known! Really stellar work.

Bryan Borland @bryanborland.bsky.social · 26d

Those are so good!

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Bryan Borland @bryanborland.bsky.social · 27d

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

Bryan Borland @bryanborland.bsky.social · 28d

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

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Bryan Borland @bryanborland.bsky.social · Sep 11

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

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Bryan Borland @bryanborland.bsky.social · Sep 10

I love your work, Marc!

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localswampgay @localswampgay.bsky.social · Sep 9

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

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