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Update on Assaracus
When I founded Assaracus: A Journal of Gay Poetry , I wanted a place where our voices could exist without apology. A place for the...
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Aug 10, 20252 min read


Calling Arkansas Poets: Reel Queer Film Festival and Sibling Rivalry Press Team Up to Turn This Red State RAINBOW
The Reel Queer Film Festival returns to Central Arkansas on August 21, 2025! Help us celebrate the evening before the festival by...
bryanborland
Jul 22, 20251 min read


Gay Liberation Front Statement
I've often wondered had I lived in NYC during Stonewall or the height of the AIDS crisis, would I have stood with my siblings in the...
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Jul 6, 20254 min read


Assaracus Reborn (with Regards to the Supreme Court)
Today, the Supreme Court ruled that parents, on religious grounds, can opt their children out of exposure to any books with LGBTQ+...
bryanborland
Jun 27, 20253 min read


Catalyze Grant Announcement
I'm full of gratitude to be included in the 2025 Catalyze Grantee Cohort. From the official announcement : Twenty-five artists in...
bryanborland
Jun 17, 20251 min read


The Dirt on DIG
In 2016, I published DIG through George Mason University's Stillhouse Press, run at the time by the wonderful Marcos Martinez as...
bryanborland
Jun 15, 20255 min read


Brotherful (or: My Life as Bryan)
I uploaded Brotherful to the printer yesterday, and I’ve put it up for pre-order on the SRP site . (Rob J. – don’t you dare. I’m sending...
bryanborland
Apr 25, 20252 min read


Crow (and Bryan) in the Desert
Last summer, I was hosted by The Desert Rat Residency for Writers in Palm Desert, CA - and during my stay, the dam broke, and I wrote a...
bryanborland
Mar 18, 20252 min read


Felice Picano (1944 - 2025) / On Kissing Elder Gay Poets
Ian Young called me this afternoon to tell me Felice died "peacefully and not alone." I'm proud to have called him a friend. When last I...
bryanborland
Mar 12, 20252 min read


Turning to the Old Gods
I've long held Allen Ginsberg in high regard as a queer elder. I've read "Howl" and the early poems and the final poems. I've seen him as...
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Feb 28, 20252 min read


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Feb 24, 20250 min read


The Struggle
I'm struggling with social media these days. It sure seems like there are a lot of "bot" accounts that are designed to make us upset /...
bryanborland
Feb 21, 20252 min read


Sons of Abraham
My grief grows with the years. I count seventeen Octobers come and gone, imagine a green-eyed boy with hair the color of straw, ...
bryanborland
Feb 20, 20251 min read


They Say The Music You Hear At Fourteen Is the Music of Your Life
Small town anywhere a mother is driving her son to the party because that’s where the boy is the boy that makes him feel like a bird just...
bryanborland
Feb 20, 20251 min read
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