Gabriella Brand

I often teach students about creating “found” poetry, although I rarely practice that art myself. But when the literary review Herontree set forth an unusual challenge, I was tempted to try my hand. They asked poets to write a poem based solely on the words and phrases from a 1905 publication entitled “How to Keep Read more

Every week NewVerse News publishes poetry that is related to current events. Most publications takes months to read, decide and publish submitted work. But New Verse News shares writer’s immediate reactions. They just published my poem entitled “The Supreme Court Justices Go to the Garage”, which I wrote upon hearing of the recent legal decision Read more

I’ve long been fascinated by the Canadian painter and writer, Emily Carr. Who wouldn’t admire a woman who went off – in 1898 – by herself – to stay in aboriginal villages in British Columbia? She was a daring Modernist artist, Canada’s answer to Georgia O’Keefe. At the same time, she was a staunch environmentalist Read more

I’m just back from Montreal where I participated in the launch of My Island, My City, a collection of new work from forty different writers, sponsored by Montreal’s own Lawn Chair Soirée and edited by Jan Jorgensen. I was delighted to have my poem Skating to China included in this anthology. If you don’t know Montreal Read more

Gyroscope Review has a new issue coming out.  One of my poems appears in its pages (both print and online).  Check it out here: Socks, then and now We’re drinking the water that used to be sky,We’re standing on ground that used to be sea.The turning is constant, it’s all on the wheel. See these Read more

I‘m fortunate to have old friends, who have known me through the different stages of my life. I examine one of those cherished friendships in a poem entitled “The Lakeside Diner” which appears in January 2017 issue of Poetry Breakfast.   Check it out at:http://poetrybreakfast.com or read it below: The Lakeside Diner The LakeSide Diner, homemade Read more

Poetry Breakfast.com is a marvelous site which delivers  a daily poem, like a fresh croissant. (Or a scone, or a blueberry muffin, depending). My poem “Tethered” appeared in the January 6, 2017 edition.Check it out here: https://poetrybreakfast.com/2017/01/06/tethered-a-poem-by-gabriella-brand/or read it below: Tethered The grand-babies appeared among us, delivered on the doorstep,wrinkled like little rutabagas.They were new, Read more

The celebrated bookstore Politics and Prose in Washington,D.C. periodically publishes a collection entitled “District Lines” featuring writing about life in the Nation’s capital. My piece called Flight Pattern: Zackary appears in the January 2016 edition. You can read it here: Flight Pattern: Zackary All during recess, while the other kids perfected their drop kicks or Read more

Spirit First is an organization devoted to meditation and harmonious living. My poem “River, Stream, Brook, Mind” won their Editor’s Choice Award in 2014 and appeared in their publication “Moments of the Soul: Winning Poems on Meditation, Mindfulness, Silence and Stillness”. It was later reprinted, with my permission, by Lilipoh, the national magazine of Waldorf Read more

High stakes of Summer http://www.everywritersresource.com/poemeveryday/high-stakes-of-summer-by-gabriella-brand/ The High Stakes of Summer We watch the yellow rays of July splaying across our bedroom floor, playing poker with our vacation, cajoling us out onto the porch, gambling on thunderclouds, living high on the hog, bluffing us down to the beach, hiding, seeking, upping the ante. But some days Read more

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Switched-on-Gutenberg published The Wild Turkey Gang in issue 19.Read it below or check it out here:www.switched-ongutenberg.org/archive/issue19/brand.htm The Wild Turkey Gang There are nine or ten of them, with their mottled feathers slicked back, sullen and shifty-eyed, loitering on the planted patch near the highway tunnel, watching the cars go by like a bunch of teenagers Read more

Cordite Poetry Review is Australia’s leading poetry magazine. My poem “Pirate” appeared in its pages in 2013.Check it out online here: http://cordite.org.au/content/poetry/notheme2/or read it below: Pirate  No one saw who did the deed, No one saw who pushed the giddy counselor off the ledge of the dam towards the copper-bottomed lake down below. Male staff Read more

If you are hungry, or if you have a sweet tooth….don’t read this! This poem was read on NPR’s The Faith Middleton Show in October 8, 2011. Dessert Time Are the old desserts lonely these days? The Chiffon Pie, the Southern Ambrosia? Do they talk among themselves, sweetly reminiscing, or are they plotting revenge, counting Read more

http://www.roommagazine.com/issues/siblings Garbled She tries to forgive the sister who slapped her by omission when the others were invited up that long hot weekend flies buzzing over the potato salad the badminton net sagging everyone sitting on the old webbed garden chairs or squeezed together on the garden glider chewing the family fat, succulent as pork, Read more

This Haven Back when the river was lush with oyster, long before the Hector rounded the point, the first tribes understood the sanctity of promise. Through season and tide, through harvest and flood, who knows how many oaths have been sworn or shattered between the red rocks of this land? Think of the Sachem giving Read more

Winter 2011- Issue 130http://calliopeontheweb.org Gendered Chrysalis Long before he understood much, he sensed that when he slid out from the dark folds of his mother’s body, weewee unfurling like a flag, everyone saluted his boyness. Long before he understood much, he feared fists and headlocks, the lunging towards his solar plexus, all the noisy dares Read more

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e The Blue Line -The Magazine of the Adirondacks published its 35th Anniversary Issue in 2014. My poem “Complines at Lower Saranac” was included in it. Read it here: Complines on Lower Saranac Lake We bid our hosts goodbye, then tie the flashlight to the bow and paddle perfect j-hooks, vowed to silence like Trappists, Read more