Bri Stokes

@bristokes.bsky.social

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2024 Voodoonauts Fellow // 2024 Seventh Wave Resident // words in Epiphany, 45th Parallel, Northridge Review & elsewhere 🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩🇺🇸 https://bristokes.substack.com/

Anthony Mackie catching a vibe 🤣
A picture of me at the LA No Kings Day protests. I’m wearing a black shirt and black shorts, a black and white keffiyeh covering my face and head, and holding an upside down American flag
A preview of my most recent Substack post against a sky blue background, titled, “The Nonlinear Nonsense of Time: on feminist praxis & Indigenous language.” The preview itself reads: “I find it sort of hysterical that my first post in nearly a year and a half is centered around time (excuse my insanely long absence, by the way).”
SpongeBob sitting alone at a diner lol
A black and white image of a man against a purple and indigo colored, futuristic background. The title of the anthology, Amorphaville, appears across his face in retro-styled yellow lettering. The subtitle of the image, “A speculative fiction & poetry anthology featuring BIPOC voices,” appears beneath it in white lettering with purple accenting. The Hinchas Press logo is in the upper right corner of the image.
A lineup for “Sunflower Nights,” a poetry reading at the Tabula Rasa Bar in Hollywood on Tuesday, 1/28, from 7:30p-10p. Featuring Morgan Parker, Kafka Grover, Nikolai Garcia, Elyse Runkle, Ryan Moats, Victoria Alejandro, and me :)
A meme of Steve Buscemi dressed like a teenager asking, “How do you do, fellow kids?”
Cooper is a white terrier, and he’s wearing blue overalls that say “Good dog,” a comically awful orange wig, a red striped shirt complete with “doll arms,” and a detachable, “bloodied” foam knife.
Screenshot of a post on Threads that reads: “I saw someone say that we are currently living through a serious empathy crisis. They’re right.”
A flyer seeking submissions for a BIPOC-focused, speculative poetry and flash fiction anthology to be published by an independent, POC owned/operated, LA-based press. A yellow banner that reads: “Open for Submissions” against a teal blue background featuring a vintage yellow telephone, clock, and a mug of coffee. You can check the link in my bio for more details 🖤
This was me at 23 in some bar in West Hollywood. I’m probably drinking a cider beer. I have on a purple beret, a black dress, and a jean jacket.
A promotional image for the interview. Shelly is pictured in the left, wearing a long-sleeved black shirt and plum-colors lipstick. I am on the right, wearing a green overalls dress and a white dress shirt underneath, standing before a tree. A picture of my chapbook, “A Throat Full of Forest-Dirt,” is in-between us.
Image calling for submissions to the anthology: a blue background featuring pictures of an old telephone, a retro clock, and a cup of coffee. Very retro futurism.
A picture of me! This is back when I had Marley twists. I’m wearing a black cameo necklace, gold hoop earrings, and a red paisley print dress.
The zine is called DYS(PHORIA), written in black font, along with my name. The cover is blood red. An image of a trio of nude statues is positioned in front of a vintage column of newspaper ads.