Bruce Bromley
@bdbiii.bsky.social
Writer, musician, painter, teacher: Clinical Professor of writing at New York University. Author: _Guesting_ (Understory Books, 2022); _The Life in the Sky Comes Down (Backlash Press, 2017); _Making Figures_ (Dalkey Archive Press, 2014).
From "Out/In," my new substack! Link: brucebromley.substack.com/p/outin
November 6, 2025 at 9:22 PM
From "Out/In," my new substack! Link: brucebromley.substack.com/p/outin
My new substack! Link: brucebromley.substack.com/p/outin
November 6, 2025 at 8:18 PM
My new substack! Link: brucebromley.substack.com/p/outin
From my new substack, "Gnossienne for Lisa de Kooning"! Link: brucebromley.substack.com/p/gnossienne...
October 31, 2025 at 7:58 PM
From my new substack, "Gnossienne for Lisa de Kooning"! Link: brucebromley.substack.com/p/gnossienne...
My fourth substack--about Lisa de Kooning and Suzanne Valadon and Erik Satie and East Hampton!
October 30, 2025 at 6:50 PM
My fourth substack--about Lisa de Kooning and Suzanne Valadon and Erik Satie and East Hampton!
The magnificent visual artist and writer Leonora Carrington--with one of her beloveds!
October 27, 2025 at 10:45 PM
The magnificent visual artist and writer Leonora Carrington--with one of her beloveds!
Please consider stopping by! brucebromley.substack.com
October 27, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Please consider stopping by! brucebromley.substack.com
A sumptuous painting by Jane Wilson--those *greens*!
October 26, 2025 at 9:28 PM
A sumptuous painting by Jane Wilson--those *greens*!
The beautiful and soul-gifted Sufjan Stevens: his recent album _Javelins_ has untold beauties in it. Here:
Will anybody ever love me?
For good reasons, without grievance
Not for sport
Will anybody ever love me?
In every season pledge allegiance to my heart
Pledge allegiance to my burning heart
Will anybody ever love me?
For good reasons, without grievance
Not for sport
Will anybody ever love me?
In every season pledge allegiance to my heart
Pledge allegiance to my burning heart
October 26, 2025 at 5:33 AM
The beautiful and soul-gifted Sufjan Stevens: his recent album _Javelins_ has untold beauties in it. Here:
Will anybody ever love me?
For good reasons, without grievance
Not for sport
Will anybody ever love me?
In every season pledge allegiance to my heart
Pledge allegiance to my burning heart
Will anybody ever love me?
For good reasons, without grievance
Not for sport
Will anybody ever love me?
In every season pledge allegiance to my heart
Pledge allegiance to my burning heart
Oh, the changing light!
October 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Oh, the changing light!
From my third substack, "Four Ways In": brucebromley.substack.com/p/four-ways-in
October 24, 2025 at 5:53 PM
From my third substack, "Four Ways In": brucebromley.substack.com/p/four-ways-in
Four Ways In open.substack.com/pub/brucebro... My third substack--about being saved from an abusive father (for a while) by Jimmy Hammerstein, Oscar's son; about gay boy-love; and about a buck entranced by the moon.
Four Ways In
They were two 12 year old boys fighting sleep in an attic room, wondering when their balls would drop and why fathers were so strange.
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October 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Four Ways In open.substack.com/pub/brucebro... My third substack--about being saved from an abusive father (for a while) by Jimmy Hammerstein, Oscar's son; about gay boy-love; and about a buck entranced by the moon.
A recent magisterial painting by Luca Ponsato!
October 23, 2025 at 4:53 AM
A recent magisterial painting by Luca Ponsato!
From my second substack, "Hatch," about gay love and child abuse and East Hampton! brucebromley.substack.com
October 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
From my second substack, "Hatch," about gay love and child abuse and East Hampton! brucebromley.substack.com
Hatch: open.substack.com/pub/brucebro.... About gay love and child abuse and East Hampton!
Hatch
Nearly halfway to 14 and I’ve slept with more men than my parents Pat and Steve would ever care to count.
open.substack.com
October 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Hatch: open.substack.com/pub/brucebro.... About gay love and child abuse and East Hampton!
From "We Won't Need Saving," my first substack. Link: brucebromley.substack.com
October 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM
From "We Won't Need Saving," my first substack. Link: brucebromley.substack.com
A door painted by Leonora Carrington in the house she shared with Max Ernst, in Saint-Martin-d'Ardèche, before the world blew up and the Nazis and the collaborators came.
October 18, 2025 at 8:44 PM
A door painted by Leonora Carrington in the house she shared with Max Ernst, in Saint-Martin-d'Ardèche, before the world blew up and the Nazis and the collaborators came.
Miloš Jiránek's powerful 1903 _Showers in a Prague Sokol_!
October 17, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Miloš Jiránek's powerful 1903 _Showers in a Prague Sokol_!
We Won't Need Saving
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open.substack.com/pub/brucebro...
We Won't Need Saving
These words come to me in a country where 16-year-old Nex, of Oklahoma’s Choctaw Nation, won’t stay inside the cage that gender throws over human bodies, won’t assent to what can be done in gender’s n...
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October 16, 2025 at 10:48 PM
We Won't Need Saving
open.substack.com/pub/brucebro...
open.substack.com/pub/brucebro...
The wondrous Estonian painter Karl Pärsimägi and his 1935 _Self-Portrait with Pearls_!
October 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The wondrous Estonian painter Karl Pärsimägi and his 1935 _Self-Portrait with Pearls_!
One of van Gogh's trees from 1887--it opens up my heart.
October 14, 2025 at 4:43 AM
One of van Gogh's trees from 1887--it opens up my heart.
This was lovely to see.
October 13, 2025 at 6:37 AM
This was lovely to see.
Ellen Thesleff, 1891: Yes, sing out your soul!
October 11, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Ellen Thesleff, 1891: Yes, sing out your soul!
A 1935 photograph by the superb Lionel Wendt!
October 11, 2025 at 10:53 PM
A 1935 photograph by the superb Lionel Wendt!
María Corina Machado and the Nobel: Hell, YES!!
October 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
María Corina Machado and the Nobel: Hell, YES!!