Gabrielle Bates

I, um, have an announcement, and the announcement is that MY VERY FIRST BOOK IS HAPPENING!!!!!!! Judas Goat 🔪 @Tin_House 🔪 2023

5/8/26 “Taking my pain in and in. Like a lover after a too-long, anguished absence”

Our first prompt this April is the “Little Letter” by @GabrielleBates and we're opening this one to the public to kick off National Poetry Month! brooklynpoets.org/promptaday

It’s the FINAL DAY of our fundraising auction ft. @GabrielleBates, @chenchenwrites, Ross Gay, Ariana Reines, @cathylinhche, @TaraSkurtu, @_joseolivarez, Hala Alyan & more! Get your bids in by 10pm ET! givebutter.com/c/bkp2025/auct…

Introducing Palestine by Heart: A Fundraiser for Gaza & Poetry Memorization Challenge 💌 Read all about it here! mailchi.mp/openpoetrybook…

@nc_exlibris 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗!

HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY DEAR FRIEND AND MENTOR @GabrielleBates

Our fundraising auction ft. poem feedback, consultations & more from poets incl. @NifMuhammad, Hala Alyan, @GabrielleBates, @cathylinhche, @chenchenwrites, Ross Gay, Eugenia Leigh, @cassmannes, @_joseolivarez, Ariana Reines, @TaraSkurtu & more is live! givebutter.com/c/bkp2025/auct…

Happy publication day to Judas Goat by Gabrielle Bates! Out now on our website and anywhere you buy books 📖 tinyurl.com/3nhdbkee Gabrielle Bates’ electrifying debut questions what it means to love another person and how to exorcise childhood fears.

Gabrielle Bates' next stop on her UK book tour of Judas Goat is at East Bristol Books with Emma Gomis✨ tinyurl.com/gabrielle-ebb Other UK tour dates: London, Cafe OTO 24 Oct Edinburgh, Topping & Company 27 Oct with Jessica Widner Cardiff, Book Space 30 Oct with Hanan Issa

Just a couple days until you too can flip through the pages of this unique and highly anticipated book ✨️ Order your copy of AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A PERFORMANCE by Blue Pieta, and Bhanu Kapil uk.bookshop.org/a/15251/978106… #smallpresspublishing #the87press #booklaunch #indiepress

“A man wrote me a letter from prison that included very specific details about my life. / When he told me he was my grandfather, I knew it was impossible, but I still believed him.” —from “The Letter,” a new poem by @GabrielleBates thebeliever.net/the-letter/

We're delighted to announce one of our acts for the next MUSHAIRA is our very own Gabrielle Bates (@GabrielleBates)! October 24th 2025, doors at 7 at Cafe OTO cafeoto.co.uk/events/the87pr… Mushaira is a live literature reading series featuring authors published by indie presses.

join me this Sunday 9/21 for Lake Effect: A Generative Writing Workshop, 11am-11.30pm CT. sliding scale, details here: bit.ly/lakedropin

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.

a treasure trove! @openpoetrybooks …n-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com

Please consider buying these (terrific) poetry books from a poetry bookstore! You can order directly from Open Books: A Poem Emporium ♥️

Congrats to all the tremendous poets on this list 🎉🎉🎉 We're rooting for you (& you & you & ...) ✨ All the books listed here are available for order and pre-order through our site, or come on by your local poetry bookstore to pick up a copy in person: …n-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com

come celebrate this gorgeous debut with us 💗💗💗

throwback to the first “good” poem I ever wrote, circa fall 2014; I still remember sitting at my tiny studio apartment table, first semester of grad school, CD Wright’s selected poems nearby—

@simeonberry @GuernicaMag surprising throwback ♥️

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

Free poetry office hours continue at Open Books: A Poem Emporium this September, this time with Lena Khalaf Tuffaha! Upcoming dates: 9/12, 9/24, and 9/26. Sign-up for an appointment in person (on the sheet outside the Parlor door) or try your luck at a drop-in ✨