B. N. WattenbargerOct 13, 20193 min readThe Intimacy Collection, Part Onea primer for knowing your best friend's lover how to get to know your best friend's lover: ask them to brunch, together, at your...
B. N. WattenbargerOct 10, 20191 min readdancer's feeti have danced five times in my life: girl scouts, prom, by the river at night with a bottle of beer in one hand and a boy's hand on my...
B. N. WattenbargerOct 9, 20191 min readthis citythis city feeds off dreams: eats them, swallows them whole. i carry every step i have ever taken forward as a blister on my heels i've...
B. N. WattenbargerOct 5, 20191 min readintimacyI want to live on the edges, the dawns and dusks where the warm colors dull sharp edges into soft. I want to live in the warmth between...
B. N. WattenbargerOct 3, 20195 min readOctober Writing Prompts Day 3It's a short, hot summer. Most summers here are hot. Not just hot, but a scorching kind of heat that kills the grass and burns the...
B. N. WattenbargerOct 2, 20192 min readOctober Writing Prompts Day 2She was looking forward to the ceremony. Of course she was– she'd been waiting her whole life for this. Today marked the truth of her...
B. N. WattenbargerOct 1, 20192 min readOctober Writing Prompts Day 1It was almost definitely the adrenaline. Or perhaps it was the four iced coffees on an empty stomach– though, what was that but a false...
B. N. WattenbargerSep 30, 20191 min readchampagne morningswaking up with you: a champagne morning. your lips, like wine blur the sharp edges and i am heady with the feel of your skin on my skin. ...
B. N. WattenbargerSep 29, 20191 min readplaces of worshipam i benevolent? i am nothing if not benevolent. i say tell me, you say worship. it took five hundred years to build the ulm minster....
B. N. WattenbargerSep 28, 20191 min readIn Every City I See Ghostsmy mouth on yours, a promise my hand in yours, familiar at the park, on the bridge across the river watching our friends walk away at...
B. N. WattenbargerSep 26, 20191 min readWhat's Real Is Thishave you ever done push-ups on a speeding train? hung from the luggage racks, got off at the wrong stop? gone all the way to the ends of...
B. N. WattenbargerSep 24, 20192 min readThree Poems Three Poems for a Young Delinquent rumchata I think you'll like rumchata, more than Malibu anyway. I made mixed drinks. They're– well,...
B. N. WattenbargerSep 20, 20191 min readMy Body is a Mausoleummy mother once told me it was hard to know me. i seal my thoughts into tombs, and do not mark their edges. she says my body has become a...
B. N. WattenbargerSep 19, 20191 min readLet's Talk About The Apocalypselet's talk about the apocalypse my whole life, someone's been saying the world is ending. the preacher tells me god is coming back soon...
B. N. WattenbargerSep 17, 20192 min readliminal spacean incomplete list of liminal spaces i have lost and found myself in: steak and shake past midnight, when the waiters don't care if you...
B. N. WattenbargerSep 17, 20192 min readunsafe sex and unsafe drinkingcw: this poem discusses sexual assault, rape, and unsafe drinking habits. in college i attended a seminar titled "safe sex and safe...
B. N. WattenbargerSep 14, 20191 min readthe american dreamscientists say americans are touch-starved. we only touch each other when we want something. I don't know what I want. years ago, the...
B. N. WattenbargerAug 26, 20191 min readAbecedarian Tindr ProfileA girl like many others, I was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. I love to drive across the country, listening to Edward Sharpe and the...
B. N. WattenbargerAug 23, 20191 min readSestina: on SestinasSestinas give me a headache. It’s still simpler than writing prose: I am a poet, after all. I was born to feel too much and put it on...
B. N. WattenbargerAug 23, 20191 min readIntroductionHi! My name is B. N. Wattenbarger, and I'm a queer author and poet living in the American South. I've been writing poetry since I was...
