Bryan Borland

LONOKE

Bryan Borland — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 21:08:23 +0000

QUEERTOPIA: THE POSTER

Bryan Borland — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:23:45 +0000

BOSTON, HERE WE COME

Bryan Borland — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 18:30:21 +0000

Seth and I will be bringing SRP to the annual AWP conference in Boston from March 6 – March 9. We will have a table (easy to remember: K-9), and I’ll be hosting a portion of the big Queertopia reading on Thursday, March 7:

Address: Moonshine Room of Club Cafe
209 Columbus Ave Boston, MA 02116
(617) 536-0966
Website of Location: http://www.clubcafe.com/banquets-catering/

The Sibling Rivalry Press portion of the event begins at 5:00 PM. The entire reading runs from 4:00 – 8:00 PM.

Seth will be reading, along with Jessie Carty, Raymond Luczak, Julie Enszer, Kevin Simmonds, Valerie Wetlaufer, Matthew Hittinger, Nicolas Destino, Saeed Jones, and Michael Klein. What a fantastic, diverse lineup! I’m so proud of SRP and what we’ve grown into.

In addition to hearing and reading some damn fine poetry, you’ll probably get to see me do things like give Seth piggyback rides, too. (See below. Yeah, I’m nauseatingly in love.)

On the writing front, new work has been accepted by Rhino and Amsterdam Quarterly. I’ve also seen my poetic style evolve thanks to intense poetry study sessions with Seth. Through these, I’ve become enamored with the poetry of Adrienne Rich, which is really influencing my own work as late. Hope to share some new poems soon.

Love, love, love.

Pacific Coast New Year’s Poem

Bryan Borland — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:32:06 +0000

I want to be old with you here read the paper.
grumble about politics and the weather

offer crumpled sections of the Chronicle
to young men from the hostel I want

to know cops by their first names know when
the pastries are fresh and the women aren’t

I want to have our own crooked patio full
of plants we’d never seen before California

I want to die first here after a full life
because I’d know these streets would hold you

steady because I’d know you’d see the bay
and remember the night we chose fire over fireworks

us doing our familiar dance jazz and you
falling asleep in the bend of my arm

this was where we lived
anywhere was where we lived.

- Journal Entry
1 January 2013
Caffe Trieste
San Francisco, California

LFP Featured by Small Press Distribution

Bryan Borland — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 15:31:04 +0000

Much gratitude to Small Press Distribution for featuring Less Fortunate Pirates on their list of new & forthcoming titles. LFP is now available for pre-order all over the place: Our official SRP bookstore (order from here and your copy will be signed), Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and, of course, Small Press Distribution, who I encourage you to support. You can also refer your local bookstores and libraries to Small Press Distribution in order to have them carry LFP – which would make me a happy boy. This book, more than anything I’ve written, speaks to such a large audience. We’ve all grieved in one way or another. We’ve all lost someone we’ve loved deeply, be it to death or metaphor. Less Fortunate Pirates is a roadmap to surviving the first year after a loss. To finding hope again. The more I read these poems to audiences, the more I understand my role and why I had to write this book. It was for my father. It was for my mother. It was for me. But now I see it was for you, too. Whoever you are. And especially if you or someone you know has struggled with the loss of a father – reach out to me and let me know. I want you – or that person – to have a copy of Pirates. It’s why I wrote this book. It’s not about money to me. It’s not about making a profit. It’s about getting these poems into hands that need them.

Sooner or later, we all become pirates.

If you’re in Arkansas, don’t miss the official launch of Less Fortunate Pirates - 6:00 PM on Tuesday, November 13, 2012, at the Arkansas Arts Center, 501 East 9th Street, Little Rock, AR 72202, (501) 372-4000. Not only will Theresa Davis be performing – but you’re also going to hear a poem from Pirates like you’ve never heard one of my poems before. If you’re local, please help me spread the word about the launch. The Arts Center is doing me a huge favor by hosting the launch and I’d love to have a great turnout to repay their generosity.

Love, love, love folks.