Readings

Brendan reads “epicurean ethics” for Inklette Magazine’s youtube channel.

Brendan performs virtually for the Seeing Things Spring 2021 Poetry Workshop

Brendan performs virtually for Hartwick College’s 2021 Visiting Writer Series

Readings and performances by Brendan can be found on his YouTube channel.

Books and Chapbooks

concussion fragment

concussion fragment, winner of the 2021 elsewhere Chapbook Prize and the 2022 Florida Book Award Gold Medal, is about bodies moved by casual, ritual violence: the violence of backyards, sports fields, house parties, dinner tables, addiction, and labor. concussion fragment considers chaos, the need for and failures of companionship, and the shred of fierce longing buried in the skin of boys before they can put a name to it. It's about anger for anger's sake, and sadness for sadness' sake; it's an examination of life lived recklessly because it sometimes seems there is no other way. Purchase concussion fragment here.

the only flesh to feed you

Brendan's fourth collection, the only flesh to feed you, is the runner up in YellowJacket Press' Florida chapbook competition. the only flesh to feed you is a series of eighteen love poems written in the voices of animals. TOFTFY can be purchased through YellowJacket Press. 

Buddha vs. Bonobo

Brendan's third collection, Buddha vs. Bonobo, is a hand-sewn chapbook published by Sutra Press in October 2017. More about Buddha vs. Bonobo can be found here. 

BvB gets a shoutout in Ploughshares as a debut chapbook from Sutra Press. 

Make Anything Whole

Brendan Walsh’s Make Anything Whole is crafted from the best facets of both travel writing and the poetry of place. Among these pages, readers find the estranged familiarity of coming back to one’s home and country after traveling abroad. Taking us on the road as he experiences Laos, Korea, and then re-experiences the United States, Walsh chronicles the characters he meets along the way and ultimately discovers that you can take home with you wherever you go. His ultimately life-affirming experiences are set against a backdrop of interactions told through the sociological poetic eye.

A portion of the proceeds from this book will go to support CleanBirth.org, a group in Laos that educates women about safe birthing practices and provides sterile supplies to prevent mortality during child birth.

Make Anything Whole can be purchased on Amazon.

Magazine and Journal Publications

Latest:

Stone Pacific, September 2023. “god. 26” and “sand crabs”

Red Noise Collective, September 2023. “raven”

The Fourth River, September 2023. “folding your laundry”

Hoxie Gorge Review, August 2023. “boca raton”

Hawai’i Pacific Review, April 2023. “the art”

Anacapa Review, March 2023. “qualia”

Scapegoat Review, Winter 2022. “Too many mangoes” and “Rum Punch”

Kitchen Table Quarterly, October 2022. “what’s living”

Red Ogre Review, September 2022. “The Last Poem I’ll Ever Write About Zhang Weili vs. Joanna Jędrzejczyk I”

The Literary Bohemian, May 2022. “poem for this particular fear”

Inklette Magazine, April 2022. “epicurean ethics”

The Westchester Review, March 2022. “god. 15”

The Festival Review, February 2022. “the buck the buck the buck”

The American Journal of Poetry, January 2022. “vibetown summer” and “long week”

HASH Journal, December 2021. “final thoughts at the end of the world”

Miracle Monocle, November 2021. “particle board” and “pop tarts”

South Florida Poetry Journal, August 2021. “god. 5” and god. 26”

Barzakh Magazine, June 2021. “scenes from the climate apocalypse, florida”

Portland Review, May 2021. “to mukethe,” and “notjustyet notjustyet”

Up The Staircase Quarterly, July 2021. “horse poem for a long gone lover”