Gavin Garza 𓆏
@gavinopoet.bsky.social
"Hablando estupideces, como si fuera Portishead.'' ✿ CenCal Poet & Memoirist ✿ Cult Survivor ✿ Berkeley '26
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Gavin Garza 𓆏
@gavinopoet.bsky.social
· Nov 21
Introduction time!
I'm Gavin Garza, a Chicano poet from Central California. I was raised in a cult called IBLP, but now I study English at UC Berkeley! It's taken a lot to get this far...
Here's a visual prose poem (now in Bleach!). Let's keep in touch? Send me poems or memes while you're at it 📚
I'm Gavin Garza, a Chicano poet from Central California. I was raised in a cult called IBLP, but now I study English at UC Berkeley! It's taken a lot to get this far...
Here's a visual prose poem (now in Bleach!). Let's keep in touch? Send me poems or memes while you're at it 📚
Sent out like... 7 submissions today to some big-name mags because I keep getting personalized/tiered rejection letters and someone has to bite eventually 🥸
March 27, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Sent out like... 7 submissions today to some big-name mags because I keep getting personalized/tiered rejection letters and someone has to bite eventually 🥸
My definition of a villain era is baking cookies to death metal that's playing a little too loud
March 23, 2025 at 11:09 PM
My definition of a villain era is baking cookies to death metal that's playing a little too loud
Sorry I'm late—I've mostly been offline—but check out my interview with @bulbculture.bsky.social!
Happy Sunday! Today, we're Shining A Light on @gavinopoet.bsky.social!
Gavin's "For the 90 Year Old Sleeping In Her Pontiac" is a brilliant poem, and now you can go behind the scenes of Gavin's writing process.
Head on over to the site!
Gavin's "For the 90 Year Old Sleeping In Her Pontiac" is a brilliant poem, and now you can go behind the scenes of Gavin's writing process.
Head on over to the site!
BCC Shines A Light On: Gavin Garza — Bulb Culture Collective
Name of the piece published by BCC: For the 90 Year Old Sleeping In Her Pontiac When/where was it originally published: RamsTelling , 2024. Defunct student journal. (((Fund the Humani...
www.bulbculturecollective.com
March 22, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Sorry I'm late—I've mostly been offline—but check out my interview with @bulbculture.bsky.social!
I'm late but here's a line or two from every piece I had published in 2024
January 10, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I'm late but here's a line or two from every piece I had published in 2024
Does anyone know what happened with Bullshit Lit?
January 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Does anyone know what happened with Bullshit Lit?
Something tells me I'll be sourcing a lot myself from rage this year
January 8, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Something tells me I'll be sourcing a lot myself from rage this year
Walked 2 miles and back from the grocery store because I was bored
January 6, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Walked 2 miles and back from the grocery store because I was bored
Jay-Z's verse on Monster aged so poorly holy shit
January 6, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Jay-Z's verse on Monster aged so poorly holy shit
Saw the Nicole Kidman AMC intro for the first time last night and I'm a new man
January 2, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Saw the Nicole Kidman AMC intro for the first time last night and I'm a new man
Had a dream about my late-abuelito last night. He called me through a payphone just to catch up. Don’t remember what we talked about, but what he said before abruptly hanging up was: "Well, I love you, mijo. I gotta go, but you're going to do great—I'm proud of you. Good luck in Berkeley."
January 1, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Had a dream about my late-abuelito last night. He called me through a payphone just to catch up. Don’t remember what we talked about, but what he said before abruptly hanging up was: "Well, I love you, mijo. I gotta go, but you're going to do great—I'm proud of you. Good luck in Berkeley."
"You think if the algorithm told Mr. Beast to shoot a man he would do it?" Is the craziest sentence I've heard all week and it's from fucking videogamedunkey
December 31, 2024 at 8:18 PM
"You think if the algorithm told Mr. Beast to shoot a man he would do it?" Is the craziest sentence I've heard all week and it's from fucking videogamedunkey
Wrote "I'm too stubborn to quit" in my cover letter to a publication that's rejected me like 4 times already 😶
December 28, 2024 at 4:47 AM
Wrote "I'm too stubborn to quit" in my cover letter to a publication that's rejected me like 4 times already 😶
On my own for Christmas. Any ideas?
December 25, 2024 at 7:40 PM
On my own for Christmas. Any ideas?
Reading Kurt Cobain’s journals and I'm exhausted
December 22, 2024 at 10:55 PM
Reading Kurt Cobain’s journals and I'm exhausted
Antony and Cleopatra is about the world's first situationship. In this essay, I will—
December 20, 2024 at 7:14 PM
Antony and Cleopatra is about the world's first situationship. In this essay, I will—
You can learn a lot about a poet based on their moon poem
December 17, 2024 at 5:31 PM
You can learn a lot about a poet based on their moon poem
Gonna submit to a little mag or two this week and then take a break until the new year. Between the final round rejection letters and personal hardships, I think I need time to rest, turn my phone off, read, and really question this insecurity I have of feeling perpetually not good enough.
December 16, 2024 at 3:36 AM
Gonna submit to a little mag or two this week and then take a break until the new year. Between the final round rejection letters and personal hardships, I think I need time to rest, turn my phone off, read, and really question this insecurity I have of feeling perpetually not good enough.
Hater to lovers was invented by boomers to sell more divorce
December 14, 2024 at 11:53 AM
Hater to lovers was invented by boomers to sell more divorce
Guess who got in
God, if you're listening, I pray you get me off the waitlist the cults class next semester
December 13, 2024 at 8:08 PM
Guess who got in
Newt spotted in Berkeley
December 12, 2024 at 11:57 PM
Newt spotted in Berkeley
What if you shared your favorite CDs with me and I wrote a poem about all the ways you're my favorite person 👉👈
🪿 POETRY 🪿
Something so magical and sparkly about earnest desire. And hey this poet is single if anybody…is interested… let the geese match make what could go wrong!
Strawberries by @gavinopoet.bsky.social
“I’ve got a 20 for gas & a multi-stop trip plan.”
sillygoosepress.com/issue-three/...
Something so magical and sparkly about earnest desire. And hey this poet is single if anybody…is interested… let the geese match make what could go wrong!
Strawberries by @gavinopoet.bsky.social
“I’ve got a 20 for gas & a multi-stop trip plan.”
sillygoosepress.com/issue-three/...
Strawberries — sillygoosepress
This basket is for all the mornings we pushed our plans back & slept in a bit.
sillygoosepress.com
December 12, 2024 at 11:56 PM
What if you shared your favorite CDs with me and I wrote a poem about all the ways you're my favorite person 👉👈
Ran into Fresno poet Sara Borjas here at Berkeley and I think it's the first hug I've had in months. I feel ready for finals now
December 11, 2024 at 3:31 AM
Ran into Fresno poet Sara Borjas here at Berkeley and I think it's the first hug I've had in months. I feel ready for finals now
New-ish poem about a crisis with no sirens in @bulbculture.bsky.social
Thank you so much to @jaredpovanda.bsky.social and @scoops.bsky.social for giving this one a home and keeping the lights on 💡(pun not intended)
Thank you so much to @jaredpovanda.bsky.social and @scoops.bsky.social for giving this one a home and keeping the lights on 💡(pun not intended)
The light is on for Gavin Garza! @gavinopoet.bsky.social! 💡
Head on over to the site to read Gavin's amazing and powerful poem: "For the 90 Year Old Sleeping in Her Pontiac"
Head on over to the site to read Gavin's amazing and powerful poem: "For the 90 Year Old Sleeping in Her Pontiac"
For the 90 Year Old Sleeping in Her Pontiac - Gavin Garza — Bulb Culture Collective
I assumed we’d find hospital walls and a priest at our bedside.
www.bulbculturecollective.com
December 10, 2024 at 6:53 PM
New-ish poem about a crisis with no sirens in @bulbculture.bsky.social
Thank you so much to @jaredpovanda.bsky.social and @scoops.bsky.social for giving this one a home and keeping the lights on 💡(pun not intended)
Thank you so much to @jaredpovanda.bsky.social and @scoops.bsky.social for giving this one a home and keeping the lights on 💡(pun not intended)
Oh my god we lost Nikki Giovanni
December 10, 2024 at 4:27 AM
Oh my god we lost Nikki Giovanni