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Kevin Bertolero

@kevinbertolero.bsky.social
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📍Portland, ME • boxd.it/nNQH Editor @andchangepoetry.bsky.social Publisher @ghostcitypress.bsky.social

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& Change @andchangepoetry.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Issue 14 coming your way soon — now available for preorder! 🍂 www.andchangepoetry.com/issues/p/no-14
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Will Willoughby @willwilloughby.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Hey #WritingCommunity! This is a great conference in a beautiful place. I went a few years ago and got a lot out of it.
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Kevin Bertolero @kevinbertolero.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Friends! The Kettle Pond Writers' Conference is June 20-27 this year up in the Adirondacks and there's tons of fellowship funding still available!! It's gonna be a great week, I hope you'll consider applying!! kettlepondwriters.com
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Kettle Pond Writers' Conference
Kettle Pond Writers' Conference is a generative writers' conference & retreat
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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
By @kevinbertolero.bsky.social #poetrycommunity #poetry #gaypoetry #poetsky
PAST THE AISLE

I'm going to be 
the sunny side 
from now on— 
that little patch 
of light by the 
stoop between 
the oak branches 
which in February 
lets through a glow 
like the soft skin 
beneath a teenage 
beard & when 
you say you'll 
never be happy 
like that, I'll pull 
out my phone
& show you a photo 
of the day I saw 
you at the grocery 
& how you didn't 
see me there
watching you lean 
in to smell 
all the pink & 
yellow zinnias, 
how you couldn't 
put them down 
so instead you 
brought them 
home.EVENING PASSING

Asleep
you grab my hand 
& that's enough—
we stay in bed 
eleven hours 
right through 
the storm.Lars lies supine, spread across pages 
36-37 in the August 'or issue of Freshmen, 
his dick segmented by the margins 
of the page. I wonder where he is now— 
old enough to be my father, surely.

I often think of the dark hair trailing up 
to his nipples. He looks more like a David 
to me.Alain Delon kisses his reflection
in Purple Noon (1960)—the mirror 
clouded by his heavy breath.
I stop breathing.
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Justin Karcher @justinkarcher.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Last night was incredible. What a sendoff. We had, like, 30 readers. Big thx to our featured poet @kevinbertolero.bsky.social and everyone else for their powerful words
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& Change @andchangepoetry.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
A new chapbook, JUNE!, by Miguel Murphy (@miguelmurphy.bsky.social) is now available for preorder! Coming June 12, 2026. www.andchangepoetry.com/books/p/june
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& Change @andchangepoetry.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Surprise! Issue No. 12 is arriving a little sooner than expected! We’re very excited to announce that & Change will be switching to a quarterly publishing cadence moving forward, as opposed to being published triannually as we have been since 2022.
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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
i wrote a collection with my bestie and it’s gonna be out in the world soooooon. like, actually.
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& Change @andchangepoetry.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Coming March 6th, 2026, LOVE THAT FOR US by Chen Chen (@chenchenwrites.bsky.social) and Sam Herschel Wein (@samforbreakfast.bsky.social) is now available for pre-order!! www.andchangepoetry.com/books/p/love...
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& Change @andchangepoetry.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Issue No. 11 is here!! All subscriptions and preorders were dropped off at the post office this morning and should be in your mailboxes very soon!! Didn’t order your copy yet? Get one here: andchangepoetry.com/issues/p/no-11
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Kevin Bertolero @kevinbertolero.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Thanks again to Alex Matthews for interviewing me about @andchangepoetry.bsky.social! Check it out: aswimmingpoollibrary.net/those-poems-...
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Kevin Bertolero @kevinbertolero.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
A recent interview with @michaelcolbert.bsky.social for his Substack! Check it out: referential.substack.com/p/dramatic-b...
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& Change @andchangepoetry.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
New issue also means new merch! 3"x3" stickers will be included for all subscribers, but they're also available in our web store if you want extras! www.andchangepoetry.com/merch/p/bedr...
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& Change @andchangepoetry.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
ISSUE 11 NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER! www.andchangepoetry.com/issues/p/no-11
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Kevin Bertolero @kevinbertolero.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Favorite first watches, October 2025: • Rich and Famous (Cukor, 1981) • How to Get Ahead in Advertising (Robinson, 1989) • The Sheltering Sky (Bertolucci, 1990) • The Best Intentions (August, 1992)
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& Change @andchangepoetry.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
DAYTIMEPOET by Richard Carey is out today! Order your copy here: www.andchangepoetry.com/books/p/dayt...
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Kevin Bertolero @kevinbertolero.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Four favorites from September: • On the Beach (Kramer, 1959) • Elmer Gantry (Brooks, 1960) • Emperor of the North (Aldrich, 1973) • Dr. T & the Women (Altman, 2000)
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Bonanni Comma John @bananascallops.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Thank you to @kevinbertolero.bsky.social for including 2 of my poems digging into ACTUP history in this incrediblly queer lit mag @andchangepoetry.bsky.social
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Kevin Bertolero @kevinbertolero.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Four favorites from August: • LAST SUMMER (Perry, 1969) • MOMMIE DEAREST (Perry, 1981) • O.C. AND STIGGS (Altman, 1985) • AFTER LUCIA (Franco, 2012)
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& Change @andchangepoetry.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Issue No. 10 of & Change is now available for preorder! Get your copy here: www.andchangepoetry.com/issues/p/no-10
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& Change @andchangepoetry.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Issue 10 is on the way! Full cover reveal coming soon 👀
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Aaron Lelito @aaronlelito.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Thanks for series editors @tomsnarsky.bsky.social & Gabrielle Grace Hogan and Ghost City publisher @kevinbertolero.bsky.social for putting out so much awesome work this summer. Glad to be a part of it!
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Kevin Bertolero @kevinbertolero.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
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Kevin Bertolero @kevinbertolero.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Honored to have my career-spanning essay on Ron Schreiber—undoubtedly my favorite poet—included in the newest issue of spoKe! Thank you to Mark Pawlak for asking me to be a part of this festschrift for Ron and to Kevin Gallagher for putting together this beautiful issue.
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Kevin Bertolero @kevinbertolero.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Feel very fortunate to have met Edmund White back in 2018, he was so kind. His books mean a great deal to me.
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Kevin Bertolero @kevinbertolero.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
I've already sent out a few ARCs but if anybody else is interested in reviewing the new collection hmu
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& Change @andchangepoetry.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
The first is what is hopefully a long line of chapbooks and full-length collections!!
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Kevin Bertolero @kevinbertolero.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
I will have advance copies for sale at @kpondwriters.bsky.social in June!!!
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Kevin Bertolero @kevinbertolero.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Excited to announce that my new collection of poems, IN PASSING, is now available for preorder! Coming 7.25.25 www.andchangepoetry.com/books/p/in-p...
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Kevin Bertolero @kevinbertolero.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
My new author photos! 📸 Cole Phillips
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Homodoxy @homodoxy.com · 27/04/2025
so happy to get the new @andchangepoetry.bsky.social in the mail, featuring two new poems by me! sharing one here <3, sam
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Kevin Bertolero @kevinbertolero.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
The Illiac Passion (1967) dir. Gregory J. Markopoulos
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Kevin Bertolero @kevinbertolero.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Rare 16mm screening!! Get your tickets ASAP!! space538.org/event/nathan...
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Homodoxy @homodoxy.com · 11/04/2025
Got two poems in @andchangepoetry.bsky.social!!!!! Issues cost $3. -sam
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& Change @andchangepoetry.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
ISSUE NO. 9 of & CHANGE is now available for pre-order!! Featuring incredible new poems by Troy Cabida, Luís Costa, Samuel Ernest, Hunter Hodkinson, Jason Lingard, Antment Pimentel Mendoza, Mu Cao (trans. Hongwei Bao), Miguel Murphy, and James J. Siegel!! www.andchangepoetry.com/issues/p/no-9
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Kevin Bertolero @kevinbertolero.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
wait Stan Brakhage was so cuteee
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Kevin Bertolero @kevinbertolero.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
status update
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Kevin Bertolero @kevinbertolero.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Now watching The War Wagon (1967)
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Kevin Bertolero @kevinbertolero.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
“To study John Ford, to know John Ford, is to keep at least two ideas in your head at once because they happen to be about the same man. What worries me just enough is we’re losing the will to do that.” Love love love this book @honorszombie.bsky.social
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Kevin Bertolero @kevinbertolero.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Favorite First Watches of February 2025: • HUD (Ritt, 1963) • NOTHING BUT A MAN (Roemer, 1964) • IN HARM'S WAY (Preminger, 1965) • NORMA RAE (Ritt, 1979)
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Kevin Bertolero @kevinbertolero.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
My director stats for Jan + Feb
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Ghost City Press @ghostcitypress.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
TODAY IS THE DAY!! THE FINAL DAY TO SUBMIT!! ghostcitypress.com/microchap-su...
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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Introducing 16mm screening of NOTHING BUT A MAN (1964) at SPACE in Portland, Maine, this evening was pretty incredible!
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Ghost City Press @ghostcitypress.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
2 DAYS LEFT!! ✌️ Summer Series submission guidelines: ghostcitypress.com/microchap-su...
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Ghost City Press @ghostcitypress.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
YOU HAVE UNTIL FEBRUARY 28th TO SUBMIT YOUR MICRO-CHAP!! REMIND YOUR FRIENDS!! ghostcitypress.com/microchap-su...
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& Change @andchangepoetry.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Encouraging all gay people to send in work for the 2025 Summer Series!!
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Film Updates @thefilmupdates.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Barry Keoghan and Riley Keough are in talks to star in Kantemir Balagov’s ‘BUTTERFLY JAM.’ Follows a tight-knit U.S. community of Circassian immigrants and a complicated relationship between a father and son. (
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Ghost City Press @ghostcitypress.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Keep the submissions coming! There are 3 weeks left to send us your work for our (10th!!) annual Summer Micro-Chapbook Series!! You can find our submission guidelines here: ghostcitypress.com/microchap-su...
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Kevin Bertolero @kevinbertolero.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
My copy of Visage finally arrived in the mail today, and at long last, my Tsai Ming-liang collection is complete 🙌🏼
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Kevin Bertolero @kevinbertolero.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
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