Brandel France de Bravo

Locomotive Cathedral (poems) March 2025 from @BackwatersPres @UnivNebPress and Best American Poetry 2024. Work in @32_Poems @SouthernHReview @conduitmagazine

[swamp pink @swamp_pink]

Congrats to the 2026 swamp pink Prize Winners!
@BFdeB
@_reeselopez
and LC Killingsworth
See all the finalists on our site: https://t.co/iyEXkCysVv

[Politics and Prose @PoliticsProse]

Tomorrow (6/2), join Caroline Bock for THE OTHER BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE -  a workplace love story unlike any other - 7pm @ Conn Ave: https://t.co/MXSykWh4OM

[Regal House Publishing @RegalHouse1]

Join us tomorrow night, June 2, at Politics and Prose to celebrate the launch of Caroline Bock's The Other Beautiful People! Signed copies at the event. Please #shoplocal and support this wonderful #indiebookstore https://t.co/67DZZAuxZj

[Brandel France de Bravo @BFdeB]

Thank you @ilanot_review for giving a home to my WHOLE sonnet crown about “lasts.” All seven sonnets here: https://t.co/Iodb4XUevs

[Brandel France de Bravo @BFdeB]

Thanks @miracle_monocle for giving a home to three of my hybrid “Redactions and Annotation”! Read the whole miraculous issue here! https://t.co/7j8us4XljG

[The Backwaters Press @BackwatersPress]

The 2026 Backwaters Prize in Poetry is open for submissions now through May 1. This year's contest is judged by Diane Seuss, the author of six books of poetry, including MODERN POETRY (2024) and FRANK: SONNETS (2021). https://t.co/c9v6W17eJG

[Brandel France de Bravo @BFdeB]

One of my all time favorite journals. Happy to be among this issue’s contributors

[AlaskaQuarterlyReview @AQReview]

Our Vol. 42 No. 1 & 2 Winter and Spring 2026 issue is out in the world. New work from @RosebudBenOni, @mashawrites, Debbie Urbanski, Catherine Kim, @LucasLJorgensen, @MCzyzniejewski, @BFdeB, Tom Kizzia, Lauren Camp, and many more. Get your copy here:

https://t.co/DB0x9Lii3H

[The Backwaters Press @BackwatersPress]

"LOCOMOTIVE CATHEDRAL speaks to the tension between my desire for stillness/eternity and the unstoppable propulsion of change," says @BFdeB in an interview with @TupeloQ.

https://t.co/oLgymwT9rb

[Brandel France de Bravo @BFdeB]

@AdairWriter @JackKornfield Thank you!! That poem is also in my new book LOCOMOTIVE CATHEDRAL from @BackwatersPress and it’s on sale now from University of Nebraska Press here https://t.co/d8FuOsJCi5

[The Backwaters Press @BackwatersPress]

In LOCOMOTIVE CATHEDRAL @BFdeB builds a temple to the perpetual motion of transformation, the wondrous churn of change and exchange that defines companionship, marriage, and ceding our place on Earth.

Get books 50% off: https://t.co/ykWLZFoT2g

[Simeon Berry @simeonberry]

It was always
an empty bottle.

We were always
the dark.

Ardor is still
random and dizzy

and someone turns
the lights on

and the room
without the bottle

keeps spinning.
—Andrea Cohen, “Spinning the Bottle” @DiodeEditions @FourWayBooks https://t.co/OOWlovyTHR

[Crown Publishing @CrownPublishing]

Service95 Book Club with Dua Lipa dropped their newest podcast episode!

Listen to the full interview with Dua and Jennifer Celement, the author of WIDOW BASQUIAT, the Service95 June book club pick.

https://t.co/e813nilA6r

[Brandel France de Bravo @BFdeB]

Tuesday, May 27, at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, MD at 7 pm. I'll be reading and in-conversation with two highly acclaimed poets: Jennifer Martelli from MA and Subhaga Crystal Bacon. https://t.co/VO7f0yS7IY

[Cindy Veach @cindy_veach]

My newest poetry collection, MONSTER GALAXY, releases April 30th (MoonPath Press)! Preorders at https://t.co/QhLAdASvJw are discounted!

https://t.co/ZfFobvwsEm

[Brandel France de Bravo @BFdeB]

Live in the DMV? Join me for my DC book launch at Connecticut Avenue Politics and Prose @PoliticsProse on Saturday, April 26 at 5 pm. The train is pulling into the station for National Poetry Month. April 26 is also independent book store crawl day.

[A Hundred Pitchers of Honey @hphseries]

We are hosting SIX, count 'em, SIX amazing readers to celebrate National Poetry Month. Register at the link to hear these poets!
https://t.co/sH3fLWmsHh

[Brandel France de Bravo @BFdeB]

Big congrats to Michael!

[Brandel France de Bravo @BFdeB]

@MikhailBazharov @lisaraat I love this.

[WWPH The Washington Writers' Publishing House @WWPHPress]

TONIGHT!! Thurs. Jan. 16th- at one of our favorite bookstores, PEOPLE'S BOOK in Takoma Pk-- our 2024 award-winning @varungauri, in conversation with the literary critic (and novelist!) @marthaannetoll! Find out why this novel is one of NPR's BOOKS WE LOVE! #writerslift

[Leslie Pietrzyk @lesliepwriter]

Can you please share this call for submissions? I'm so excited about our next theme and the forthcoming issue! 🥰