Oliver Brooks

Honored to have my poem nominated! ☺️

Friday, November 14th at 7:30 PM Eastern
SoFloPoJo Issue 39 POETRY Launch Reading
featuring poets from our November Issue
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SoFloPoJo November Issue #39
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Poster for Texas Review’s virtual reading and launch party on November 5 at 7 PM CT

Mark your calendar—if you attend the Texas Review’s virtual reading next week, I’ll see you there! 🗓️

Southeast Review | Writing Contests Southeast Review offers four annual contests: the Gearhart Poetry Contest, the World's Best Short-Short Story Contest, the Ned Stuckey-French Nonfiction Contest, and the Southeast Review Art Contest. ...

Our contests are open! $16 entry! $750 prize!

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Southeast Review would love to announce our Hocus Pocus Halloween Fundraiser for 2025! Join us for a bewitching evening on Tuesday, October 28th from 7:00 - 9:00 PM at The Bark in support of all things magical! 🔮🪄✨️

If you’ve got poems you’ve been working on, now’s a good time to submit!

Judge Orders Florida Rainbow Sidewalk Chalk Protestor Released From Jail—Arrests Continue In the latest twist on DeSantis' war on Pride crosswalks in the state, a judge has ruled that police had no probable cause to arrest a sidewalk chalkers. Then, three more were arrested.

1. On Saturday, a judge ordered Pulse pride crosswalk protester released from jail.

Police arrested him after he chalked the bottom of his shoe in rainbow colors and walked across it.

Sunday, police arrested 3 more under the same charges.

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Poetry by Ryan Caidic Figure with Stars (1933), Joan MiróTricksand my children became ghouls flitting between the veil of night,that year, they were in Betelgeuse,handing out candy to the unabsolved, the vampires, the cron...

This poem is as close as we’re getting to fall here in Florida.

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So excited to have a poem in @rustandmoth.bsky.social‘s autumn issue!

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43.1 Christopher R. Vaughan PittsburghWhat if we lived in Pittsburgh? What if we packed a U-Haul with Etch-a-Sketches,Legos, budding seedlings, the piano, left the prairie grass teeteringin the mirrors, clickered across kettle m...

Great list, reminds me of this poem about Pittsburgh! I’m starting to think I need to visit there now… 🧐
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42.1 Meghan Kemp-Gee A late-night text message from the Keyhole Nebula, eight thousand and forty-one trillion kilometers awayIn no uncertain terms, you said, it’s been too long. Since we caught up, you clarified. (Caught ...

Do poems about nebulae count?

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Fleeting, yearning, and missing something before it’s even gone, Chelsea Harlan’s Passage, feels like a glimpse into the past.
Harlan is the author of Bright Shade and the winner of the 2022 American Poetry Review and Honickman First Book Prize.

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Image of a book open to Frank O’Hara’s poem titled “My Heart”

Reading Frank O’Hara tonight…

YouTube video by Andrea Gibson Andrea Gibson - Homesick: A Plea For Our Planet (Official Video)

I’m so sad to hear that Andrea Gibson passed away yesterday.

If you’ve never listened to their magnificent piece “Homesick: A Plea For Our Planet” I hope you’ll take a few minutes. It’s gorgeous and powerful.

Rest in Peace, Poet. 🕊️

Andrea Gibson, a Poet of Love, Hope and Gender Identity, Dies at 49

Just a staggering loss. 💔https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/arts/andrea-gibson-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.W08.PYk2.zAWXotAvSm4G&smid=url-share

43.1 Tyler Wagner All TalkI wanted to write a poem about your voice, how you spoke as if there were a barn burning behind me, and only you could see it. Instead I started writing about horses, which I thoughtcould some...

In All Talk, Wagner describes the sound of someone’s voice, through beautiful, thought-provoking prose of headless horses, burning barns, and inattentive meadows. He has been featured in Booth, Salt Hill, and The Pinch. #literarymagazine #poetry

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I guess it’s a busy day in the literary world—you can also find my poetry in the fab Plenitude Magazine today!

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I have a new poem out in the latest issue of Midway Journal! Check it out here:

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Belated post but you can find two of my poems in the latest issue of Spectrum Literary Journal! Whole issue here: spectrum.ccs.ucsb.edu/vol-68

From the poem "Ginsberg in Purgatory" by Oliver Brooks "While we’re here in hell’s waiting room, surrounded by tabloids and hairdo mags,                I touch your hand and feel absurd. I want                to worship at the church of your dirt, smell"

Read the rest of the poem "Ginsberg in Purgatory" by @oliverbrooks.bsky.social from Variant issue 21:

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they don't teach you this in writing workshops but a neat writing trick is that you can lie

Fantastic poem!

Creation Myth - River & South Review by Oliver Brooks

New poem in River & South Review! You can check it out here: riverandsouth.com/creation-myth/

Excited to have a new poem out in this issue alongside many excellent poets and writers!

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So excited to have a poem in the most recent issue of New Delta Review! They really know how to cultivate a vibe with every issue, which you can read here: ndrmag.org/loves-labors

On Earth Day I Wonder, by Oliver Brooks if your therapist got together with mine, what would they talk about? Not our dull lives—far too tedious for an all-day rendezvous—so perhaps they’d rent a swan boat out on the lake, pedal into sun…

New poem published in Halfway Down the Stairs! You can check it out here:

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Issue 19 of Saw Palm: Florida Literature & Art leans against a pot of succulents. On the front cover, a person made of citrus strikes a pose.

Thrilled to get my hands on my contributor’s copy of Saw Palm! Check them out if you love Floridian literature and art 🍊🌴

Nobody wants your feeble prayers • Florida Phoenix Thoughts and prayers. On Thursday, April 17, a 20-year-old boy, a student, walked around FSU’s sunny campus, firing a handgun. Two dead; six injured. The response from our elected leaders? The usual: ...

“The fact that they are able to sit in this place and prioritize weapons over my life, my friends’ lives, and the lives of my community around me is deplorable.” floridaphoenix.com/2025/04/28/n...

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