Gabrielle Bates

Graphic of an event with a drawn image of a book open on the top right and microphone with the wire laced around on the bottom right. The text reads on the top center: Gabrielle Bates In the center is an image in black and white of the poet Gabrielle Bates With text at the bottom that reads: Mushaira, 24th Oct. Cafe Oto And logo of arts council england and the87press on the bottom right corner

Graphic of an event with a drawn image of a book open on the top left and microphone with the wire laced around on the bottom right. The text reads on the top center: Mushaira, a night of poetry, music and food. In the center are images of all the poets features. With text at the bottom that reads: 24th Oct. 7pm door. Cafe Oto And logo of arts council england and the87press on the bottom right corner

We're delighted to announce one of our acts for the next MUSHAIRA is our very own Gabrielle Bates (@gabriellebates.bsky.social)!

October 24th 2025, doors at 7 at Cafe OTO
www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the87...

Mushaira is a live literature reading series featuring authors published by indie presses.

The Letter - Believer Magazine

Poems by Kyle Carrero Lopez, Soham Patel, and this one by @gabriellebates.bsky.social:

www.thebeliever.net/the-letter/

GABRIELLE BATES New Baroque Derangement I was conceived in a restless biome, a riot of wisteria. Unguarded. Bitch of blue. A woman pushed her tongue into my mouth and it was good weather. There were spirals, spirals at the heart as pure lasso—ice pure loss skipping liquid, straight to air I could and couldn't bare because I was and wasn't. Combing a lone shore there under the moonlit backwash of receding waves, all that grit in my gums and oceanscape's overlappings, I am telling you in that fading cyanic I saw your faces. In the sands. I saw. Every person I might have been or birthed I could not reach but I could see. A consciousness I'd once called mine clambering into a swan boat. And high above, and far around, the rope of air caught music's meat. I saw what seeing used to mean.

trying to force myself to share at least the occasional poem, now that I'm throwing new work against the walls. this one was published in Southern Indiana Review 🖤 I wrote it in a time when I had not really slept for many months and was going insane.

Looking forward to publishing this beautiful collection of poems by Gabrielle Bates @gabriellebates.bsky.social 📖 Judas Goat, coming to the UK and Ireland in October 2025.

Pre-order now: tinyurl.com/JudasGoat87

#letscreate #the87press #indiepress #SupportIndiePublishers #literature #preorder

Today’s poem is selected by Gabrielle Bates (@gabriellebates.bsky.social) as part of the 20th anniversary of Read A Little Poetry.

“Radio, Radio” appeared in Radio, Radio by Ben Doyle, published by Louisiana State University Press, 2000. Shared here with deep gratitude.

Carousel <p>The foal in its wet white bag / isn’t dead yet. Cue the cheery organ music. </p>

“How many nights have I done this. Whittled / a carousel out of my hands. Invited to bed their / wooden breath.” — @gabriellebates.bsky.social , “Carousel” www.guernicamag.com/carousel/

Have a look at the gorgeous cover for Judas Goat by Gabrielle Bates 😍 @gabriellebates.bsky.social

We will be bringing this poetry collection to the UK and Ireland in October 2025.

Pre-order now: tinyurl.com/JudasGoat87

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Bring. It. On...💗🌺🎉🐐

Judas Goat a book by Gabrielle Bates. Gabrielle Bates’s electric debut collection Judas Goat plumbs the depths of intimate relationships. The book’s eponymous animal is used to lead sheep to slaughter while its own life is spared, and its...

If you/anyone you know in the UK is interested in ordering a copy & thereby supporting me and this amazing press, please place an order with your favorite local bookshop! (You can also order through this link, but the shop might not make as much that way) uk.bookshop.org/p/books/juda...

Pink and red book cover

🎀 UK/Ireland Cover Reveal and Preorder Link

Judas Goat (the87press edition) coming Oct 24, 2025

Pressing at the Barrier — Brooklyn Poets June 8, 5-8pm (ET) with Gabrielle Bates / online

Early registration is now open for our craft lab on June 8, "Pressing at the Barrier," led by @gabriellebates.bsky.social! Register by May 18th to take advantage of our early discount & save $15. Limited financial aid available–apply by May 18th. Register at brooklynpoets.org/events/all/p...

Today’s class focuses on poems from @ruthawad.bsky.social’s Outside the Joy & @gabriellebates.bsky.social Judas Goat 🌟

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New episode up with @gabriellebates.bsky.social & @patrycjasara.bsky.social ! This was such a special conversation on art, language and friendship ❤️.

www.musingsoftheartist.com/episodes-2/g...

We're very excited to have @gabriellebates.bsky.social joining the87press! We will be bringing her poetry collection, Judas Goat, to the UK and Ireland in October 2025.

Gabrielle Bates’ electrifying debut questions what it means to love another person and how to exorcise childhood fears.

back in the PNW for the first time since i moved away 💚 it was a dream to read at Powell’s, especially with my artwife & @tinhouse.bsky.social pressmate, @gabriellebates.bsky.social. shoutout to our brilliant editor, Alyssa Ogi

Wrote a poem from the perspective of an ice swan melting & McNeese Review was kind to publish it. I thought this might be one of those odd personal experiments no one would want, with a pulse only I could feel—glad to be wrong 🤍

Can't wait for the COSMIC TANTRUM book tour to celebrate @sarahlynwrites.bsky.social stunning debut⚡ @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social in Seattle on April 10, 7 pm, w/the mesmerizing @gabriellebates.bsky.social. I'll be reading a preview of my next novel, TERRY DACTYL, masks required because we love you💞

Thank you darling ♥️🥲

Some truly amazing poems by @gabriellebates.bsky.social !!! Blown away. Thank you, Gabrielle, for your gift.

#poetry, #poetrybook, #poems, @tinhouse.bsky.social

tinhouse.com/book/judas-g...

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A light blue and purple graphic with an excerpt from "One Two" by Gabrielle Bates: "I straddle you on an old dirt floor in June/ a rabbit filling her belly with white pearls."

Gabrielle Bates author photo

Read & listen to this stunning piece “One Two” by @gabriellebates.bsky.social in our Fall 2024 issue!

kenyonreview.org/piece/one-two/

📐how to remove distance Gabrielle Bates on the magic of poetry and growing up in the Deep South...Brad & Mira investigate the spiritual mysteries of popular culture...& more...

✉️ this week's newsletter, featuring @gabriellebates.bsky.social & more...

bradlisti.substack.com/p/how-to-rem...

Thank you so much for having me on your show, Brad! OtherPpl is wonderful; I loved being a guest 💗

this poem wow (“six apologies, lord” by Olena Kalytiak Davis)

@gabriellebates.bsky.social
Recommendation: Song and The Orchard by Brigit Pegeen Kelly ( BOA Editions )
@westbranchmagazine.bsky.social westbranch.blogs.bucknell.edu/this-long-wi...

and from Plume - plumepoetry.com/uncovering-w...

OCCUPATION As dawn breaks on the horns of my ox, I plow the earth with patient pride. The earth is moist and warm on my bare feet. I beat iron all morning-the darkness is dyed red. In the afternoon heat I pick olives, the leaves the loveliest of greens: I'm light from head to toe. Guests come without fail each evening, my door is wide open to all songs. At night I wade knee-deep into the water and pull the nets out of the sea: the fish get all mixed up with the stars. Now I'm responsible for the state of the world: people and earth, darkness and light. So you see I'm up to my ears in work. Hush, my rose, hush— I'm busy falling in love with you.

—Nazim Hikmet, trans. by Randy Blasing & Mutlu Konuk

This Long Winding Line: A Poetry Retrospective – West Branch A Thrice-Yearly Magazine of Poetry, Fiction, Essays, and Reviews

NBCC member @sharalessley.bsky.social, editor-at-large for West Branch, edited a feature on the 30th anniversary of Brigit Pegeen Kelly's "SONG," including essays by David Baker, @amitmajmudar.bsky.social, @gabriellebates.bsky.social, and C. Dale Young: