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Benjamin Brindise

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Benjamin Brindise is the author of the chapbook ROTTEN KID (Ghost City Press, 2017), the full length collection of poetry Those Who Favor Fire, Those Who Pray to Fire (EMP Books, 2018), and the short fiction micro chap Secret Anniversaries (Ghost City Press, 2019).

His poetry and fiction has been published widely online and in print including Peatsmoke Journal, The Hooghly Review, Buffalo Spree, and the My Next Heart: New Buffalo Poetry anthology. He has represented Buffalo, NY in the National Poetry Slam in 2015, 2016, and 2018, and the Southern Fried Poetry Slam in 2023, helping Buffalo to place as high as 9th in the country.

He has been a guest speaker and workshop facilitator at high schools and multiple institutes for higher learning th
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Benjamin Brindise Rather than trying to remember what I was reading four summers ago, I'll talk about what I just finished and am currently reading. After seeing Colson…moreRather than trying to remember what I was reading four summers ago, I'll talk about what I just finished and am currently reading. After seeing Colson Whitehead talk at the BABEL reading series in Buffalo, NY, I picked up a copy of Zone One. It's an excellent book, cutting into the foundation of modern American life while couched in the aesthetics of a zombie novel.

After finishing, I went back to the last half of Black Leopard, Red Wolf. It's a sprawling fantasy novel by Marlon James whose characters I fell right back into despite spending some time away from. In the interim, I also knocked off The Setting Sun and School Girl by Osamu Dazai. I'm looking forward to catching up on some of the new King work. I enjoyed The Outsider, but fell off somewhere in the second story of If It Bleeds and never made it to the titular story of that book. We'll see if he's still got it! (less)
Benjamin Brindise "If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write." - Stephen King. Why try to say something someone else already sai…more"If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write." - Stephen King. Why try to say something someone else already said better?(less)
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A Bad Spot Mini-Synopsis

Now that the second draft of A Bad Spot is done and is ready to be handed out to beta-readers before the third and final draft, it's become time to consider the finer points of the query letter that will go out to literary agents when I finally try and sell this thing.

I beat my head against the wall trying to write the hook-line, but I'm not satisfied with any of them yet so I'm not going to shar Read more of this blog post »
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“I think it was C.S. Lewis that asked, 'Do not most people simply drift away?'. I've always been a reader and for the longest time that stuck with me because I was at war with it. How can people 'simply' drift away?”
Benjamin Brindise, I Was a Lid

“Sometimes things just slip past you, into your hands and out through your fingers. In my half-in/half-out state I began to wonder if that could happen to people, too.”
Benjamin Brindise, I Was a Lid

“All that helter-skelter about strings and memories was only relevant in the dark. It was light out now and time to put away childish things.”
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“I think it was C.S. Lewis that asked, 'Do not most people simply drift away?'. I've always been a reader and for the longest time that stuck with me because I was at war with it. How can people 'simply' drift away?”
Benjamin Brindise, I Was a Lid

“Sometimes things just slip past you, into your hands and out through your fingers. In my half-in/half-out state I began to wonder if that could happen to people, too.”
Benjamin Brindise, I Was a Lid

“All that helter-skelter about strings and memories was only relevant in the dark. It was light out now and time to put away childish things.”
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“I often stood and stared into those tunnels and thought about what happened there; how I was separated from it only by time." - The Procession”
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“This is what people do. They feel uncomfortable, or they want to talk to someone - even if it's about anything - and they go to the weather, or to sports, or to any other topic you can find in a newspaper. But I couldn't blame her or anyone else who did it. Starting was always the hardest part."
- 'Cold World”
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