@itsdbouts

Writer/artist with work published in POETRY, Ploughshares, Copper Nickel, American Poetry Review, AGNI, & more. 🖤 @ dbouts everywhere else

 LA
despyboutris.com
Joined December 2015
  • Tweets4.9K
  • Following1.7K
  • Followers3.7K
470Media
did i tell you guys my fiction collection is out? because my fiction collection is out. did i tell you?
17
44
2
261
it’s national coming out day so here’s a very silly poem i wrote a while back <3
9
187
i will never forget the feelings i felt as a 20 year old reading the glass essay for the first time btw poetryfoundation.org/poems/4…

The Glass Essay

Night drips its silver tap down the back. SHE She lives on a moor in the north. Spring opens like a blade there. I travel all day on trains and bring a…

poetryfoundation.org
1
7
146
We love it: contributor @itsdbouts's poem FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MONTHS, I DON'T EAT UNTIL HUNGRY was published in @outlooksprings! 👏 Read it right here. buff.ly/fcomKEm
Black birds sitting on a telephone line.

ALT Black birds sitting on a telephone line.

1
2
3
355
🤡
Cornell University
@CornellSep 28
Cornell University supports the decision of the Tompkins County District Attorney to provide an opportunity for the victim’s story in the 2024 Chi Phi fraternity sexual assault case to be heard by a criminal grand jury. Our statement: statements.cornell.edu/2026/…

District Attorney’s investigation of 2024 sexual assault allegations

statements.cornell.edu
2
213
but what about HER
Tapınak Sahaf
@tapinaksahafSep 24
Amerika'da yapılan bir araştırma sonucuna göre kedilerin zeka seviyeleri görseldeki gibiymiş. Sheridan 2. Sırada patron Küba iti ise 3. Sırada. :))
2
155
the lady doth protest too much, methinks……
mj💋🪩@rosesforsueSep 25
i’m actually fucking crying this is a new low even for her 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
4
316
another day of work where they made do stuff All Day. like the whole entire day. the gall :/
141
distinct from the fact that verity just looks bad, i can’t believe they’re making anne hathaway act alongside dakota johnson
2
257
no one told me la would be Like this
1
1
153
she literally keeps panting
47
what if we cruised in the Sunset Boulevard Trader Joe’s elevator 💗
4
278
❤️ when my neighborhood turns into the plot of La Brea
Tommy B.
@realtommybibJul 16
Sunset Boulevard is closed indefinitely in West Hollywood after a massive, 100-year-old water main ruptured early Thursday morning, creating a large sinkhole directly under the traffic light at Sunset Boulevard and Holloway Drive
3
234
begging someone to write a Yellowjackets fanfic based on THIS
1
163
anyways. on the subject of using LLM to (re)write, i thought i just wanted to share the most perfect scene from hacks that captures how i feel beautifully
3
1
9
514
help ignore my typo pls
135
i have a poem in THE split lip magazine this month <3
Split Lip Magazine@splitlipthemagMay 19
"I hate you like vampires hate garlic, like oils hate water, like dinosaurs hate meteorites— what I’d give for one to crater you. I hate you" The impeccable opening to Despy Boutris' HATE POEM WITHOUT A DROP OF HYPERBOLE IN IT, in our ✨ MAY ISSUE ✨: buff.ly/O10jIwE
6
19
140
4,015
"I hate you like vampires hate garlic, like oils hate water, like dinosaurs hate meteorites— what I’d give for one to crater you. I hate you" The impeccable opening to Despy Boutris' HATE POEM WITHOUT A DROP OF HYPERBOLE IN IT, in our ✨ MAY ISSUE ✨: buff.ly/O10jIwE
1
2
1
7
4,516
if anyone needs anything fun to do in La tomorrow, look no further! i will be here selling zines and would love if you came
1
3
240
Our MAY ISSUE is finally here. 🌼 WORDS by: E.P. Tuazon, @rennyxgong, Mary Liza Hartong, & Despy Boutris. ART by: Christopher Dunlap. PLUS: @CRSantantasio interviews Kate Broad. ✨️ Enjoy it all right here: buff.ly/pUBKe7b
A dizzying painting: crooked, tessellating cubes in red, orange, yellow, olive, sky blue, and lavender — a bold red imprimatura energizing every surface. The cubes’ white faces recede and flatten at once, the canvas pulsing with geometric tension.

ALT A dizzying painting: crooked, tessellating cubes in red, orange, yellow, olive, sky blue, and lavender — a bold red imprimatura energizing every surface. The cubes’ white faces recede and flatten at once, the canvas pulsing with geometric tension.

6
5
19
3,428
i have a poem out in the newest split lip magazine!
7
24
164
4,571
read the issue here: splitlipthemag.com

Split Lip Magazine

Split Lip Magazine is a voice-driven literary journal with a pop culture twist. We publish online monthly and in print. Poetry, fiction, memoir, flash, reviews, interviews, art.

splitlipthemag.com
1
1
7
346
& read traci brimhall’s gorg poem here (from the New Yorker, of course)
6
31
604
Load more