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Gustavo Hernandez

@gustavohernandez.bsky.social
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Poet Laureate of Orange County, CA. Author of Flower Grand First (Moon Tide Press 2021) and Bachelor (FlowerSong Press 2025)

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Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Bachelor by @gustavohernandez.bsky.social, FlowerSong Press & Wayward Creatures by heidi andrea restrepo rhodes, @hostpublications.bsky.social. See alt-text. #DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #booktok #booksta #bookstagram #booklovers
Book cover for Bachelor by Gustavo Hernandez (FlowerSong Press): Shortlisted for Gay Poetry in the Lambda Literary Awards (winners announced June 12th): https://lambdaliterary.org/awards/current-finalists/. In Bachelor’s opening poem, Gustavo Hernandez writes “I often stand right here and wonder about my voice. What it is now.” The “here” in Hernandez’s poems is opalescent: the physical and spiritual footprint of the family home; the wide wake of loss; the stillness of guarded detachment; and the threshold of new love, of the future. In these liminal waystations, the voice of Bachelor’s speaker reaches out to love, passion, heartbreak, inheritance, familial responsibility, and legacy.  https://www.flowersongpress.com/books/p/bachelor-by-gustavo-hernandezBook cover for Wayward Creatures by heidi andrea restrepo rhodes (Host Publications): Shortlisted for LGBTQ+ Poetry in the Lambda Literary Awards (winners announced June 12th): https://lambdaliterary.org/awards/current-finalists/. With monstrous joy and tenderness untamed, Wayward Creatures is a collection that spills with the verdant language of excess, inviting us to step into its wild grasses. Here, the colonizer’s language has been overgrown by an ecology of strangeness and possibility—poetry disrupts, rituals, and revolts, rendering queer abolition irresistible.  https://hostpublications.com/products/wayward-creatures-by-heidi-andrea-restrepo-rhodes
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Gustavo Hernandez @gustavohernandez.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Got three poems from Bachelor in the latest issue of Citric Acid www.citricacid.ink/issue-15/thr...
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Gustavo Hernandez @gustavohernandez.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Not exactly beating the self-centered bachelor allegations. 😬
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Gustavo Hernandez @gustavohernandez.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
MY ANSWER WHEN TODAY A GUY ON SCRUFF ASKED ME WHY I “DON’T HAVE A FELLA”
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Gustavo Hernandez @gustavohernandez.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Two new poems published today in like a field journal
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Gustavo Hernandez @gustavohernandez.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
My poem “Marte” from Flower Grand First (Moon Tide Press 2021)
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Diane Seuss @dseuss.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
This is an essay on my poem "Ballad," Keats's notion of Negative Capability, and Lorca's Duende, with a prompt and a link to the original poem. I'm happy to share it with you.
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I Know You Know: Diane Seuss On “Ballad,” Negative Capability, and the Duende
Christ was laid out in a glass coffin, like Snow White. I visited and re-visited him. He looked so much like my father on his deathbed.
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