Gabrielle Brant Freeman

My first book of poetry is available on my author page on the Press 53 site now!

Praise for When She Was Bad:

The poems of Gabrielle Freeman’s When She Was Bad are by turns amorous, witty, fierce, ironic and erudite, but they are always sensual and often erotic. As the title suggests, Freeman explores the promises and surprises of the human heart, and her deft free verse addresses temptations, rewards and disappointments. Her bold enquiries sharpen both her eye and her tongue, but her first collection is far from single-minded, as she makes room for owls, spider wort, Bela Lugosi, Stephen King, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Renoir. When She Was Bad is entertaining and enlightening, and with its publicationGabrielle Freeman steps onto the stage in full voice, singing true. -- R.T. Smith, editor of Shenandoah and author of Outlaw Style: Poems.

Praise for DISSENT

Kathleen Nalley and Gabrielle Brant Freeman sprang into sonnet-action while so many of us went fetal, unsure how to respond. This ultra-energetic, activist verse picks up where Shakespeare's poetry left off, examining those in power and the rest of us left ‘subject to Time's love or to Time's hate.’ Tradwives, abused women, sex-trafficking, school shootings, Diddy, surveillance cameras, and wildfires are just a few of the ‘real time’ examples of what these sonnets hold as our nation tries to endure. Nalley and Freeman use their fierce intelligence and intuition along with history and myth (and Macbeth!) to make sense--and sound--of our dire political moment. DISSENT is the book we have been waiting for!

—Denise Duhamel, author of Pink Lady: Poems