PUBLICATION & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
My Life as Adam, my first full-length collection of poetry, is available for purchase through Lulu. For more information about Adam, click here.
Levi and Blood are featured at Velvet Mafia.
If River Phoenix Had Lived and Watching Brokeback Mountain in Little Rock appear in Shape of a Box.
Lust in Translation, which is included in My Life as Adam as Speaking in Tongues, appears in qarrtsiluni’s Words of Power issue.
Desplome, David (The Book of David in Adam), and Astronaughty can be heard in the July 23, 2009, playlist of Wordsalad.
Spammed appears in Issue #4 of The Moose and Pussy.
Sam (The Book of Sam in Adam), Bite, and Marks of the Beast appeared in the 9th issue of Breadcrumb Scabs.
Bite also appears in the January 2010 publication of Ganymede (alongside a piece by *swoon* Mr. David Sedaris).
Birdsong, Grapes of Comfort, My Companion Piece, and Weeds appear at vox poetica. Weeds was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Weeds was also featured as part of “The Change Interviews,” a project by poet Alice Shapiro.
Morning Coffee was published by Young America Poets.
Earlier versions of If Next Year He Goes, Salsa, and Thank You were published by The Foliate Oak.
Teenage Boys (Altar Boys in Adam) appears at Legends of Contemporary Poetry.
Holden appears at Poet Verse.
Eric Knechtges, Professor of Music Theory and Composition at Northern Kentucky University, composed and staged a recital piece for narrator and viola around Teenage Boys, Strings, and Morning Coffee.
Check out Issue 41 of Shape of a Box, in which I lend my voice to the poetry of Rane Arroyo.
Bite appears in the anthology Ganymede Poets, One.
Eric (The Book of Eric in Adam) appears at Ink Node.
FAG/HAG appears at Ink Node.
Here’s something from the future for you to think about, Bryan. Time will come when people are all over for all sorts of reasons, telling you how fantastic you are, and they’ll be happy to read your blog and comment and write all sorts of stuff in response to what you write for years but they won’t part with ten measly bucks to buy your book and they will keep sticking ads in front of you for theirs or their friends. Not you of course, I am just trying to warn you of one of the dangers of success because you are a superstar and an honest and decent human too. What will you do, in this scenario? I would treasure your advice.
Paul
September 24, 2009 at 5:01 am
Paul,
Forgive me for not responding sooner – I didn’t see that you’d posted a comment here until today. What would I do? I’d grieve for them a little, because I know their bookshelf could be so much more fabulous with a Bryan Borland book on it! I’m a fan of symmetry, and I’d say the only way to balance out the grandness of having The Puzzle Box in the room is by having my book on the other side. Right? Wait. I don’t have a book yet. So the universe will remain in chaos. But when I do…
poeticgrin
October 5, 2009 at 3:54 pm