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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 182 min read
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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 122 min read
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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...
bryanborland
Feb 282 min read
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Feb 240 min read
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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 212 min read
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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 201 min read
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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 201 min read
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