Gabrielle Brant Freeman

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My poems can make a difference. Support the arts!

In the words of Jillian Holtzmann, "Let's go." Donate $0.50 to $1.00 per poem: 30 in 30!

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Poet Bio: Gabrielle Brant Freeman's poetry has been published in many journals, most recently in Barrelhouse, Cider Press Review, Grist, One, Rappahannock Review, storySouth, and Waxwing. She was nominated twice for the Best of the Net, and she was a 2014 finalist. Gabrielle won the 2015 Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition. Press 53 published her first book, When She Was Bad, in 2016. Gabrielle earned her MFA through Converse College. Read her poems and more at http://gabriellebrantfreeman.squarespace.com/.


The last time I participated in 30/30, I was one of the November 2016 poets. What a month. My intentions were to write a light-hearted poem each day centered on the idea of "adulting" and going in alphabetical order. I was posting the daily prompt on Facebook, and friends were responding with good humor...everything was going great. Then...well...y'all know what happened. While I still wrote every day, my plan derailed. My poems became largely serious and political. Since then, my thought process has changed. I have begun to realize that writing itself is a political act.

This time around, my third, I would like to bring humor back into my writing. I think, at least right now, today, that I want to write fan-poetry. Think first-person narrative from Buffy Summers' perspective, think Firefly sestina, think found poetry from Jillian Holtzmann's (I love her! See my cosplay photos above) lost diary. This is not to say that the poems won't be political, because after this past year, there's no going back. I hope you'll join me!

Your support gives me vital inspiration as I write for thirty days this month.

Tupelo Press provides the canvas, I bring my words, accompanied by other fine poets, writing thirty poems in thirty days, all ours to edit and submit as we wish. 30/30 poems have been taken by over 90 journals and featured in over 40 published chapbooks, all so Tupelo Press can keep publishing exquisite and diverse voices that might never be heard otherwise.

Every dollar gives me confidence to write more, and helps the press place more poems in gorgeous books. Help me to help this distinguished press. Give today!