Assaracus Issue 11: A Journal of Gay Poetry - Tapa blanda

Assaracus (ISSN 2159-0478), a quarterly journal of gay poetry and one of Library Journal's "Best New Magazines," features a substantial collection of work by a small number of established and emerging gay poets. Issue 11 of Assaracus features poetry by Stuart Barnes, Dunstan Christopher, Kirby Congdon, Craig Cotter, Randall Ivey, Peter LaBerge, A. Loudermilk, Sean Patrick Mulroy, Lucas Scheelk, Danez Smith, Mark Ward, and Korey Williams. Cover Art by David Gilmore featuring Marcelino Rosas and Roberto Barajas Maya. Edited by Bryan Borland and Seth Pennington of Sibling Rivalry Press.

Bryan Borland is a Pushcart-nominated poet from Little Rock, Arkansas, and the owner of Sibling Rivalry Press, LLC, a young publishing house whose goal is to develop, promote, and market underground artistic talent those who don't quite fit into the mainstream. As a poet, Bryan writes primarily narrative poems that create portraits of moments through words. Whether chronicling old friends and lovers in his "Book of" series ("Book of David," "Book of Cody," "Book of Dmitri," etc.) or inviting us into his family through poems like "Sons of Abraham" and "Supper," Bryan seeks to poetically etch tally marks into the walls of life; to, in essence, prove he's been here.