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Oliver Brooks @oliverbrooks.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
New poem of mine in the Bangalore Review! bangalorereview.com/2026/02/spri...
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Spring Pastoral - The Bangalore Review
I may be soggy with sleep and the wispy, leftover fragrance of night jasmine, but let me be luminous. Strut with the fawns.
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Oliver Brooks @oliverbrooks.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Thrilled for my poem “Tiresias on a a Smoke Break” to appear in this issue! www.upthestaircase.org/oliver-brook...
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​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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Oliver Brooks @oliverbrooks.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Only 5 more days to submit!
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Oliver Brooks @oliverbrooks.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Thrilled and grateful to have two poems in the latest issue of Crab Orchard Review! www.flipsnack.com/AB7B77BBDC9/...
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Southeast Review @southeastreview.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
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...
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Oliver Brooks @oliverbrooks.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Our Gearhart Poetry Contest is open for a few more weeks, so consider sending your work our way!
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Oliver Brooks @oliverbrooks.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Our fall issue’s here! 🥳
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Southeast Review @southeastreview.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Southeast Review is pleased to share our Pushcart nominee choices for 2025. #pushcart #pushcartprize #nominations #literaryawards
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Oliver Brooks @oliverbrooks.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Honored to have my poem nominated! ☺️
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SoFloPoJo @soflopojo.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Friday, November 14th at 7:30 PM Eastern SoFloPoJo Issue 39 POETRY Launch Reading featuring poets from our November Issue us02web.zoom.us/.../register...
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SoFloPoJo @soflopojo.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
SoFloPoJo November Issue #39 www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com
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Oliver Brooks @oliverbrooks.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Mark your calendar—if you attend the Texas Review’s virtual reading next week, I’ll see you there! 🗓️
Poster for Texas Review’s virtual reading and launch party on November 5 at 7 PM CT
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Southeast Review @southeastreview.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Our contests are open! $16 entry! $750 prize! www.southeastreview.org/writing-cont...
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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 @southeastreview.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
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! 🔮🪄✨️
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Oliver Brooks @oliverbrooks.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
If you’ve got poems you’ve been working on, now’s a good time to submit!
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 01/09/2025
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.
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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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Southeast Review @southeastreview.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
This poem is as close as we’re getting to fall here in Florida. www.southeastreview.org/single-post/...
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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...
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Oliver Brooks @oliverbrooks.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
So excited to have a poem in @rustandmoth.bsky.social‘s autumn issue! rustandmoth.com/work/finding...
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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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Southeast Review @southeastreview.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
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
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Oliver Brooks @oliverbrooks.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Reading Frank O’Hara tonight…
Image of a book open to Frank O’Hara’s poem titled “My Heart”
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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
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. 🕊️
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Andrea Gibson - Homesick: A Plea For Our Planet (Official Video)
YouTube video by Andrea Gibson
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
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
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Andrea Gibson, a Poet of Love, Hope and Gender Identity, Dies at 49
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Southeast Review @southeastreview.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
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/...
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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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Oliver Brooks @oliverbrooks.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
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...
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In My Molting Season – Plenitude Magazine
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Oliver Brooks @oliverbrooks.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
I have a new poem out in the latest issue of Midway Journal! Check it out here: midwayjournal.com/ode-to-what-...
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Ode to What Happened Last Thursday
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Oliver Brooks @oliverbrooks.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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
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Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Read the rest of the poem "Ginsberg in Purgatory" by @oliverbrooks.bsky.social from Variant issue 21: variantlit.com/ginsberg-in-...
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"
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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
they don't teach you this in writing workshops but a neat writing trick is that you can lie
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Oliver Brooks @oliverbrooks.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
New poem in River & South Review! You can check it out here: riverandsouth.com/creation-myth/
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Creation Myth - River & South Review
by Oliver Brooks
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Oliver Brooks @oliverbrooks.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Excited to have a new poem out in this issue alongside many excellent poets and writers! variantlit.com/ginsberg-in-...
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Ginsberg in Purgatory
Visit the post for more.
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Oliver Brooks @oliverbrooks.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
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
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Loves Labors
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Oliver Brooks @oliverbrooks.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
New poem published in Halfway Down the Stairs! You can check it out here: halfwaydownthestairs.net/2025/06/01/o...
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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…
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Oliver Brooks @oliverbrooks.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Thrilled to get my hands on my contributor’s copy of Saw Palm! Check them out if you love Floridian literature and art 🍊🌴
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.
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Florida Phoenix @floridaphoenix.com · 28/04/2025
“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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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: ...
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Oliver Brooks @oliverbrooks.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
So, so proud of how this came out and of our amazing contributors! I highly recommend giving the phenomenal poets in this issue a read 🎉
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Southeast Review @southeastreview.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Reminder that we are now taking general submissions for our next issue, 43.2! Visit the link below or on our website to have a chance to have your work published, whether it be fiction, non-fiction, poetry or young adult. www.southeastreview.org/general-subm... Submission fee is $3
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Southeast Review | General Submissions
Southeast Review accepts regular submissions for publication consideration year-round through Submittable. Our modest reading fee of $3 helps us meet the...
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Oliver Brooks @oliverbrooks.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Can’t believe it’s actually snowing in Florida right now. People near me are sledding with inner tubes and scraps of cardboard and whatever they can get their hands on. Footprints are disappearing like clouds. It’s glorious.
Snow covers a parking lot of parked cars. Buildings and trees in the distance fade into a white haze.The year 2025 traced into the snow
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Southeast Review @southeastreview.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
This week’s Online Exclusive is an About the Work for Kenneth Chacón’s poem “The Red Bandana” which was featured in Vol 42.2 💥 visit the link 🔗 in our bio to read about transcending Space/Time, adolescence, and poetry with a capital P.
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Oliver Brooks @oliverbrooks.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Happy NYE! I can’t think of many better ways to ring out the old year than by publishing a poem with @creamcityreview.bsky.social in Issue 48.2 ☺️ uwm.edu/creamcityrev...
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ISSUES
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Southeast Review @southeastreview.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
The deadline for our Contests has been extended to January 1st! 🌟 If you missed the deadline before, now is your opportunity to submit your work for the chance to win $750 and publication in our magazine. Visit the link in our bio!
Polaroid frame taped to an orange and yellow wall, featuring thumbnail portraits of our four judges and the words “Extended to Jan 1!”
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Southeast Review @southeastreview.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Our contests are OPEN! Submit art, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry to southeastreview.org/writing-contests or by visiting the 🔗 in our bio for a chance to win $750! Entry fee is $16
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Oliver Brooks @oliverbrooks.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I remember back when I was a freshman in high school, Nikki gave a reading in my hometown, and WOW could she command a room. She had an unbelievable presence about her. It was the first time in my life when I would have said “you could hear a pin drop” and meant it—we were hanging onto every word…
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Oliver Brooks @oliverbrooks.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Just stumbled across this and holy cow, this might be my new favorite short story
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Oliver Brooks @oliverbrooks.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Been on this app a few days and it’s already immeasurably more pleasant. Hello to any new connections I’ve made on here!
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