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Gavin Garza 𓆏 @gavinopoet.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Sent out like... 7 submissions today to some big-name mags because I keep getting personalized/tiered rejection letters and someone has to bite eventually 🥸

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Gavin Garza 𓆏 @gavinopoet.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

My definition of a villain era is baking cookies to death metal that's playing a little too loud

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Gavin Garza 𓆏 @gavinopoet.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Sorry I'm late—I've mostly been offline—but check out my interview with @bulbculture.bsky.social!

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Gavin Garza 𓆏 @gavinopoet.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I'm late but here's a line or two from every piece I had published in 2024

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Gavin Garza 𓆏 @gavinopoet.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Does anyone know what happened with Bullshit Lit?

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Gavin Garza 𓆏 @gavinopoet.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Something tells me I'll be sourcing a lot myself from rage this year

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Gavin Garza 𓆏 @gavinopoet.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Walked 2 miles and back from the grocery store because I was bored

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Gavin Garza 𓆏 @gavinopoet.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Jay-Z's verse on Monster aged so poorly holy shit

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Gavin Garza 𓆏 @gavinopoet.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Saw the Nicole Kidman AMC intro for the first time last night and I'm a new man

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Gavin Garza 𓆏 @gavinopoet.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Had a dream about my late-abuelito last night. He called me through a payphone just to catch up. Don’t remember what we talked about, but what he said before abruptly hanging up was: "Well, I love you, mijo. I gotta go, but you're going to do great—I'm proud of you. Good luck in Berkeley."

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Gavin Garza 𓆏 @gavinopoet.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

"You think if the algorithm told Mr. Beast to shoot a man he would do it?" Is the craziest sentence I've heard all week and it's from fucking videogamedunkey

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Gavin Garza 𓆏 @gavinopoet.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Wrote "I'm too stubborn to quit" in my cover letter to a publication that's rejected me like 4 times already 😶

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Gavin Garza 𓆏 @gavinopoet.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

On my own for Christmas. Any ideas?

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Gavin Garza 𓆏 @gavinopoet.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Reading Kurt Cobain’s journals and I'm exhausted

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Gavin Garza 𓆏 @gavinopoet.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Antony and Cleopatra is about the world's first situationship. In this essay, I will—

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Gavin Garza 𓆏 @gavinopoet.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

You can learn a lot about a poet based on their moon poem

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Gavin Garza 𓆏 @gavinopoet.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Gonna submit to a little mag or two this week and then take a break until the new year. Between the final round rejection letters and personal hardships, I think I need time to rest, turn my phone off, read, and really question this insecurity I have of feeling perpetually not good enough.

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Gavin Garza 𓆏 @gavinopoet.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Hater to lovers was invented by boomers to sell more divorce

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Gavin Garza 𓆏 @gavinopoet.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

What if you shared your favorite CDs with me and I wrote a poem about all the ways you're my favorite person 👉👈

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Gavin Garza 𓆏 @gavinopoet.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Ran into Fresno poet Sara Borjas here at Berkeley and I think it's the first hug I've had in months. I feel ready for finals now

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Gavin Garza 𓆏 @gavinopoet.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

New-ish poem about a crisis with no sirens in @bulbculture.bsky.social Thank you so much to @jaredpovanda.bsky.social and @scoops.bsky.social for giving this one a home and keeping the lights on 💡(pun not intended)

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Gavin Garza 𓆏 @gavinopoet.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Oh my god we lost Nikki Giovanni

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Gavin Garza 𓆏 @gavinopoet.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Kinda worried about V.B. and Bullshit Lit

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Gavin Garza 𓆏 @gavinopoet.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

The average Murakami experience is reading two of the most insightful, life-affirming sentences of your life followed by 10 pages of why climate change is actually a scam

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Gavin Garza 𓆏 @gavinopoet.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Cried for an hour last night because I could feel the full spectrum of emotion for the first time since I dated someone abusive

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Gavin Garza 𓆏 @gavinopoet.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Y'all.... I know you have two minutes to read this piece by Matthew Merson

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Gavin Garza 𓆏 @gavinopoet.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Learning to be proud of the bad poems I write

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Forgotten Poets @forgottenpoets.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

"The sky a verb in the sentence of my broken sleep..." —Will Erickson 🖤 via @willerickson.bsky.social #poem #poems #poetry

Central Oregon Pine Meadow

night breathes
as if
to bellows
its blackened pupils

the sky
a verb
in the sentence
of my broken
sleep

I must cover
my mouth
to speak
sincerely

slip into
a stone jacket

to speed the ripening
a night will press
its palm into
my cheek

I do assume this

my real bed
is built of clock springs

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Gavin Garza 𓆏 @gavinopoet.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

New poem about running into your abusive ex in @publishedbyjake.bsky.social So much gratitude for @britomatic.bsky.social for picking this piece out and handling it with plenty of care. (I almost kept this one in the vault ngl...)

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Gavin Garza 𓆏 @gavinopoet.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

This year's Spotify Wrapped felt AI generated idk

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Gavin Garza 𓆏 @gavinopoet.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Masculinity was right. Motorcycling and Johnny Cash fix everything

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Gavin Garza 𓆏 @gavinopoet.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

God, if you're listening, I pray you get me off the waitlist the cults class next semester

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Kyla Jenée Lacey @kylajlacey.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I do poetry for the bitches.

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Gavin Garza 𓆏 @gavinopoet.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Reading for Five Minutes Lit rn and I just read the best piece ever about the man flu

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Gavin Garza 𓆏 @gavinopoet.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Bluesky is chill but some of y'all gotta stop posting like it's Facebook 💀

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Gavin Garza 𓆏 @gavinopoet.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Went on my first run since spraining my MCL and ACL in August. Feeling really proud of myself

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Gavin Garza 𓆏 @gavinopoet.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Berkeley Co-op culture is making rice krispy treats for Kingman Hall because they let you hang with their chickens all afternoon

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Gavin Garza 𓆏 @gavinopoet.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

What if we shared a movie kiss in the middle of a roller rink? 👉👈

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Gavin Garza 𓆏 @gavinopoet.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Introduction time! I'm Gavin Garza, a Chicano poet from Central California. I was raised in a cult called IBLP, but now I study English at UC Berkeley! It's taken a lot to get this far... Here's a visual prose poem (now in Bleach!). Let's keep in touch? Send me poems or memes while you're at it 📚

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Gavin Garza 𓆏 @gavinopoet.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Applying for an internship. Pray for me y'all 🙏

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Gavin Garza 𓆏 @gavinopoet.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Mick Foley is my spirit animal send tweet

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Gavin Garza 𓆏 @gavinopoet.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

My ars poetica is finally getting published 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

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