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Bri Gonzalez

@brigonzalez.bsky.social
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author of A WELLNESS CHECK, out now w/ @gameoverbooks.bsky.social // bgwriting.org // they/them 🐀

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Bri Gonzalez @brigonzalez.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
technically it’s still may so 🐀✌️ happy mental health awareness month! here are poems from my hybrid book in celebration AWC is about diagnosis, institutional violence, bipolar, & batman. writing this book was so instrumental in accepting my diagnosis 🩵 link in bio!
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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
I am holding it together with coffee, mild delusion, and the vague idea that something beautiful might happen to me for no reason.
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SG ☀️ @sgpoet.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
oh hey i forget about this website but i have a little book out with @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social, shout out to @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social for literally everything: fifthwheelpress.myshopify.com/products/goo...
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GOOD GRIEF by SG Huerta
About the book: GOOD GRIEF is a collection of flash essays about grief in all its everyday ugliness and, well, goodness. These essays grieve a writing journey marred by racism and queerphobia, a fathe...
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Game Over Books @gameoverbooks.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
It's that time again. More info at the link in bio.
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the Jarvis Cocker of the Chicago lit scene @yoadrianididit.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
This @bobsykora.bsky.social poem from Utopians in Love made me go "goddamnit Bob" out loud
Eighteen Hundred Forty-Five in Retrospect

I'm in a dream. I'm in the future, the 22nd century, and they've asked me-me! to write a history

of the present day. What can I say?

In 1845, we regarded war as right and proper. And when men fought, they ought

to settle it with a duel. If a man insults you, it was expected you haul out and fight with pistols.

Industry was real, and everywhere. The humbler classes affected worst. Some men spent so much of their earnings on liquor their families could hardly afford food. Reeling to and fro,

they'd fall into gutters, beat their wives and tender ones. Some men realized enormous sums, unimaginable sums

of wealth. Most of which was used to accumulate even more. On the other hand, vast numbers-chiefly in the cities-sunk into a degree of misery unknown in earlier, more barbarous times. The rich unprecedentedly

rich, and the poor unprecedentedly poor. And yet in this age, full of ignorance and error,

animated by one ruling spirit-the spirit of the self-they thought it

a civilized age, looking back with pity upon simpler times.

From The Harbinger Volume 2, # 6, dated January 17, 1846. Archived copies of The Harbinger can be found at the Boston Athenaeum.
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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
My debut collection TELL ME YOURS, I’LL TELL YOU MINE is coming October from Stillhouse Press! I put my whole heart into this book, and it’ll be out in autumn: just the season for fortune telling, scary story swapping, strange skin wearing, and pinky promising…
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Shō Poetry Journal @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Coming soon 🎧
Illustrated graphic of cassette tape with striped rainbow label with text: “Shō Poetry Journal 2025 Pride Month Playlist • #2 • Total runtime 21.59” Background is cream lavender-pink
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Pedro Rios @pedroconsafos.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
ICE raided a popular restaurant in a San Diego neighborhood. About 3 dozen agents, some in full tactical gear, arrested restaurant workers while patrons were enjoying dinner. The ICE agents didn't expect a resounding rejection by neighbors & patrons. The community spontaneously protested.
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Morning. Barn Swallow, John Gerrard Keulemans, 1869.
Swallow perched on branch over waters other swallows in background, illustration
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Jonathan Danielson @jonathanin2k.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
It’s been one month since the release of my debut collection, THE LOWEST BASIN: ARIZONA STORIES, from @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social Thank you to everyone who ordered it. And if you haven’t, this could still be you!
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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
10am. 1st June. Our first anniversary subs open 🦝 No theme for this one - just a strong story with a great voice. Make us feel something. Make it linger. Any genre. trashcatlit.com/general-subm...
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Hey, want to support wildlife rescue? Monies from the VanderMeer Creative Threadless shop go to that worthy cause. Southern Reach designs, too! vandermeercreative.threadless.com
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Bri Gonzalez @brigonzalez.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
aight giving this app a whirl again 🧍 i’ll start w/ an offering, aka my newest fixation (sleep token), & if you’ve listened to the new album…. pls hmu
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Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 01/01/2025
Kicking off our new year of short fiction, we're pleased to share "More of You" by Anjali Ravi necessaryfiction.com/stories/more...
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Bob Sykora @bobsykora.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
pssst all @gameoverbooks.bsky.social current titles 51% off today only with the code "HELLYEAH" at checkout: www.gameoverbooks.com
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Game Over Books
Poetry. Fiction. Nonfiction. Your new favorite publisher: Game Over Books.
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Megan McDermott (she/her) @megmcdermott92.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Looking for another great indie press deal? @gameoverbooks.bsky.social books are 51% off at checkout today if you put in code "hellyeah," meaning you can likely get my chapbook w/ shipping for under $13!!! www.gameoverbooks.com/store/p/woma...
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Woman as Communion — Megan McDermott — Game Over Books
Woman as Communion  is a chapbook that reckons with, but is not resigned to, the patriarchal past and present of the poet’s Christian faith. Through poems that inhabit the experiences of both bib...
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Bri Gonzalez @brigonzalez.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
@gameoverbooks.bsky.social’s titles are 51% off today w/ code hellyeah at checkout 👀👀 meaning you can get my little rat book at a very very good price! www.gameoverbooks.com/store/p/a-we...
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A Wellness Check — Bri Gonzalez — Game Over Books
There, in the night sky, projected over city smog and ghost stars—the Rat Signal. Followed by the rev of the Ratmobile’s custom made engine and the inevitable slam of Asylum doors. Bri Gonzalez’s debu...
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Bri Gonzalez @brigonzalez.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
today’s mood: behind-the-scenes emmett cullen holding a bag of eggs he can’t eat, right next to a counseling poster. we call this surviving not thriving
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
this is huge. THE CALLS WORKED
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Bri Gonzalez @brigonzalez.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
check it out!! & check out SG’s substack—it’s abundant w/ community, resistance, queer power. honored to be interviewed by them 🩵
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SG ☀️ @sgpoet.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I interviewed @brigonzalez.bsky.social about their incredible collection A WELLNESS CHECK for trans poetica. truly a must-read for anyone interested in Chicanx bipolar poetics and pop culture infused writing:
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a conversation with Bri Gonzalez, author of A Wellness Check
queer poetics! bipolar poetics! Chicanx poetics! pop-culture poetics! so many exclamation marks!
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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 18/11/2024
I'll be there:
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Haley (they/them) @talkinghyphae.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Recently published by @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social
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Bri Gonzalez @brigonzalez.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
also… baby’s first fiction publication? 🫣 grateful to have this flash piece in issue 31 of four way review! fourwayreview.com/last-faces-p...
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Bri Gonzalez @brigonzalez.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
two new poems out in cuéntame lit w/ my fave issuemate @sgpoet.bsky.social ❤️❤️ go support this new latinx run magazine! the whole issue is a banger: cuentameliterary.com/2024/11/15/d...
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Duolingo Foundations 3, Section 4: Trailblazer & Other Poem | Cuéntame Literary
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Eugenia Leigh @eugenialeigh.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
It’s hard to think about love lately, but it's also the only thing worth thinking about. @honeyliterary.bsky.social, which centers marginalized writers & artists, is open for subs til 12/16. As Valentines Editor, I'd love to see any form of artistic expression touching on all types of love. ♥️
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Bri Gonzalez @brigonzalez.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
bluesky! my batman parody collection was published two months ago! 🐀 if you’re into critiques of how media portrays & commodifies mental illness w/ a side of absurdism, you can order here: www.gameoverbooks.com/store/p/a-we...
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A Wellness Check — Bri Gonzalez — Game Over Books
There, in the night sky, projected over city smog and ghost stars—the Rat Signal. Followed by the rev of the Ratmobile’s custom made engine and the inevitable slam of Asylum doors. Bri Gonzalez’s debu...
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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
"i understood the way soft necks adhered to wood stalk & drank light to their death—" Read "ABSCISSION THEORY" by Elliot Rose Winter in beestung #1
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Three Poems by Elliot Rose Winter – beestung
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Catherine Weiss @catherineweiss.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
i made that!
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Jennifer Ostopovich @jrostopovich.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
I made a list of the literary magazines and small presses I’ve found here so far. Definitely not comprehensive, I’m sure I’ve missed lots. Feel free to tag any I’ve missed in the comments. go.bsky.app/PBU24ts
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Amy Stuber @amystuber.com · 15/11/2024
this flash & short fiction writers starter pack filled up incredibly quickly (150 is the max, and I guess there are a lot of us). Anyway share if you're into short and flash fiction! go.bsky.app/53R6ziA
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Nico @nicolettem.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Please remember to include disabled & chronically ill people in your humanitarian and/or revolutionary plans. There are things some of us can do (even from our homes). One very fine example of this is #CripsForESims h/t @sfdirewolf.bsky.social @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4u8pka9h
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Crips for eSims for Gaza
Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.
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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
when i say my heart is full i mean it’s full of ghosts
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mila @milacuda.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
hi 🦋 i’m new here. so is my poetry collection from Game Over Books. www.gameoverbooks.com/store/p/still
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Patrycja @patrycjasara.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
35. aging is a funny, gorgeous, achy little miracle. 🌀 here’s a poem from We Contain Landscapes, forthcoming with @tinhouse.bsky.social in March
Beloved,

you gather me. I am not petals, though I have eaten wildflowers on greens in that glow particular to the other planet, as Mitosz described it, that is California, where I walked through salt and fog and found Mary enshrined in chalk on a gash of rock and watched the waves devour themselves til my phone died, so that I was forced to rely on the generosity of strangers, and I did take a photo later of said plate, marveling while sending it to you from the aloneness I'd traveled there to make something out of. Please send a photo of your face. Is it not my purpose to see where, exactly, laughter has rivered around the eyes I adore? There was a donkey in Petaluma with a soft, steady gaze. I will not turn away from the ache of this world. I'm trying to feel my feet. Let's cry enough to submerge, up to our ankles at least. Don't keep your grief from me.
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Cavar 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 ✡️ @cavar.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
I recently enjoyed Lowest Common Denominator by Pirkko Saiso (Two Lines Press) and A Wellness Check by @brigonzalez.bsky.social ( @gameoverbooks.bsky.social)!
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dori lumpkin 🩸 (they/them) @dorilumpkin.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Now that I’m back on here and it’s that time of year again, so I humbly present for your consideration: MY BEST WORKS PUBLISHED IN 2024. If you’re the voting type, and you would like access to any of these titles listed here, please let me know and I’ll slide one ur way! 🖤🐍🩸🔪🔥🥀💋
Dori Lumpkin’s 2024 Award Eligible Works- Antenora (Long Fiction), The Same Stars (Short Fiction), Someone Else’s Blood, Someone Else’s Love (Short Fiction) and Pixie’s Offers Lobotomies! (Short Fiction)
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allie! ally! allé! 👩🏽‍💻🥃✨🥳🌸 @allieiswriting.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Not comprehensive and still very much a work in progress, but I have begun building a user list of Black Romance Writers (which can also be pinned as a feed). bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Proud to announce that one of my favorite poems, “Shapeshifters Local,” will appear in a future issue of @kaleidotrope.bsky.social!
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blue james / team tragedy @drifloons.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
Hey if u like supernatural and poetry or even if u dont tbh u should read summer farah's stackednatural newsletter. Here's today's it rules eveningconversations.substack.com/p/stacked-da...
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stacked day 27: 8.03, 15.02
this one is mostly about poetry
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Bri Gonzalez @brigonzalez.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
bluesky! my batman parody collection was published two months ago! 🐀 if you’re into critiques of how media portrays & commodifies mental illness w/ a side of absurdism, you can order here: www.gameoverbooks.com/store/p/a-we...
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A Wellness Check — Bri Gonzalez — Game Over Books
There, in the night sky, projected over city smog and ghost stars—the Rat Signal. Followed by the rev of the Ratmobile’s custom made engine and the inevitable slam of Asylum doors. Bri Gonzalez’s debu...
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Mel (she/they) @melissajlusk.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Hi hello i really cannot stress enough how hot your activism is, like how devastating your showing up and speaking out is, just life-ruining the way you take concrete action towards making life better for your neighbors even though it’s hard and discouraging and exhausting. Radicalized you is HOT
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skip intro @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 07/09/2024
university press of kentucky is seeking submissions (essays, poems, pitch ideas) for an anthology of appalachian writers living with disabilities. email "kendra @ readappalachia (dot) com" for inquiries and submissions. @kdwinchester.bsky.social
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

This anthology, under contract with the University Press of Kentucky, will bring together disabled people across the Appalachian region to tell their stories. Contributors will focus on writing about the intersection of their identities as disabled Appalachians.
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Katie Manning @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
It would be an understatement to say that the past week has been rough, but I realized today that the week has also brought some really lovely moments of connecting with people over poetry, and I want to hold on to those experiences. www.katiemanningpoet.com/2024/11/10/e...
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Election Week Poetry Events | Katie Manning
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Bri Gonzalez @brigonzalez.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
hi again bluesky, what’d i miss??
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jen m is a spider in a window @patientspider.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
cat + call your reps to demand a ceasefire
Jonesy, a very fluffy cat, sleeping with his paws curled up on a cat and book themed quilt on a footstool. there is also a bookshelf in the background.
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Bri Gonzalez @brigonzalez.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
not in the practice of posting here but maybe i’ll get on it—meanwhile here’s my cat dahlia + a reminder to call your representatives and demand ceasefire in gaza
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Tristan J. Tarwater @backthatelfup.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
The new COVID shot is not a booster, it's like the flu shot: researched and formulated to protect from the most dangerous and common strains this year! It'll still help against other strains! Get it soon as you can and help www.yalemedicine.org/news/updated... yourself and your community!
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The Updated COVID Vaccines Are Here: 10 Things to Know
The FDA approved updated (2023–2024 formula) COVID-19 vaccines, which are expected to keep more people from getting seriously ill with the virus, including recent strains EG.5 and BA.2.86.
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