Oliver Brooks
@oliverbrooks.bsky.social
Poet | MFA Student at FSU | Poetry Editor for Southeast Review 🔗 oliverbrooks.weebly.com
Thrilled for my poem “Tiresias on a a Smoke Break” to appear in this issue! www.upthestaircase.org/oliver-brook...
Oliver Brooks
Thank Hera for this fleeting peace—a pack of Marlboro Reds and a womanly toga are all I need to stay sane. I hear the racing taxis go charioting by. Two will collide when the sun flirts with...
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Up the Staircase Quarterly@upthestaircase.bsky.social · 6mo agoIssue #72 has dropped over at www.upthestaircase.org ❄️ New poetry by Oliver Brooks, Emma Bolden, Kelli Dianne Rule, Alex Turissini, Angelique Zobitz, Meia Geddes, Angie Macri, Nicole Dufalla, Anya Kirshbaum, Aditi Bhattacharjee, Pamela Manche Pearce, and Natalie Zhang.
Only 5 more days to submit!
Southeast Review@southeastreview.bsky.social · 8mo agoOur staff just started their winter break, so we decided to give you a break as well… by extending the contest deadline. #writingcontest #artcontest #poetry #nonfiction #shortstory #flashfiction #visualart #entertowin www.southeastreview.org/writing-cont...
Thrilled and grateful to have two poems in the latest issue of Crab Orchard Review! www.flipsnack.com/AB7B77BBDC9/...
Our staff just started their winter break, so we decided to give you a break as well… by extending the contest deadline. #writingcontest #artcontest #poetry #nonfiction #shortstory #flashfiction #visualart #entertowin www.southeastreview.org/writing-cont...
Our Gearhart Poetry Contest is open for a few more weeks, so consider sending your work our way!
Southeast Review@southeastreview.bsky.social · 10mo agoOur contests are open! $16 entry! $750 prize! www.southeastreview.org/writing-cont...
Southeast Review is pleased to share our Pushcart nominee choices for 2025. #pushcart #pushcartprize #nominations #literaryawards
Friday, November 14th at 7:30 PM Eastern SoFloPoJo Issue 39 POETRY Launch Reading featuring poets from our November Issue us02web.zoom.us/.../register...
Mark your calendar—if you attend the Texas Review’s virtual reading next week, I’ll see you there! 🗓️
Our contests are open! $16 entry! $750 prize! www.southeastreview.org/writing-cont...
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. ...
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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! 🔮🪄✨️
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. Subscribe to support my journalism.
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.
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This poem is as close as we’re getting to fall here in Florida. www.southeastreview.org/single-post/...
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...
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So excited to have a poem in @rustandmoth.bsky.social‘s autumn issue! rustandmoth.com/work/finding...
Finding Lake Lindsey’s Dinosaur | Rust & Moth
When the GPS goes rogue and routes me through backwoods and boonies somewhere north of Brooksville, down unmarked roads populated with more cyclists and horse-drawn carriages than cars, I almost can’t...
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Rust & Moth@rustandmoth.bsky.social · last yr.New #poetry from Oliver Brooks: "Finding Lake Lindsey’s Dinosaur".
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. www.southeastreview.org/single-post/... #poetry
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 - Homesick: A Plea For Our Planet (Official Video)
YouTube video by Andrea Gibson
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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
Andrea Gibson, a Poet of Love, Hope and Gender Identity, Dies at 49
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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 www.southeastreview.org/single-post/...
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...
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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! plenitudemagazine.ca/in-my-moltin...
In My Molting Season – Plenitude Magazine
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I have a new poem out in the latest issue of Midway Journal! Check it out here: midwayjournal.com/ode-to-what-...
Ode to What Happened Last Thursday
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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
Read the rest of the poem "Ginsberg in Purgatory" by @oliverbrooks.bsky.social from Variant issue 21: variantlit.com/ginsberg-in-...
they don't teach you this in writing workshops but a neat writing trick is that you can lie
New poem in River & South Review! You can check it out here: riverandsouth.com/creation-myth/
Creation Myth - River & South Review
by Oliver Brooks
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Excited to have a new poem out in this issue alongside many excellent poets and writers! variantlit.com/ginsberg-in-...
Ginsberg in Purgatory
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Variant Literature@variantlit.bsky.social · last yr.Issue 21 is here! ✨️ variantlit.com/issue-twenty...