Oliver Brooks
@oliverbrooks.bsky.social
Poet | MFA Student at FSU | Poetry Editor for Southeast Review
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Honored to have my poem nominated! ☺️
Very excited to announce our nominations for the Monarch Queer Literary Awards!
November 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Honored to have my poem nominated! ☺️
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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 Issue 39 POETRY Launch Reading
featuring poets from our November Issue
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November 11, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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 Issue 39 POETRY Launch Reading
featuring poets from our November Issue
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SoFloPoJo November Issue #39
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November 1, 2025 at 3:41 AM
SoFloPoJo November Issue #39
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Mark your calendar—if you attend the Texas Review’s virtual reading next week, I’ll see you there! 🗓️
October 29, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Mark your calendar—if you attend the Texas Review’s virtual reading next week, I’ll see you there! 🗓️
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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! 🔮🪄✨️
October 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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!
September 26, 2025 at 6:48 PM
If you’ve got poems you’ve been working on, now’s a good time to submit!
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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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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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September 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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.
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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This poem is as close as we’re getting to fall here in Florida.
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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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August 9, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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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August 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
So excited to have a poem in @rustandmoth.bsky.social‘s autumn issue!
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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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#poetry
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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#poetry
July 30, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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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#poetry
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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#poetry
Reading Frank O’Hara tonight…
July 21, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Reading Frank O’Hara tonight…
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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. 🕊️
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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July 16, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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. 🕊️
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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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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July 16, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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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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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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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July 16, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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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In My Molting Season – Plenitude Magazine
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July 15, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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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Ode to What Happened Last Thursday
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July 15, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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
July 3, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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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Read the rest of the poem "Ginsberg in Purgatory" by @oliverbrooks.bsky.social from Variant issue 21:
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June 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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
June 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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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June 13, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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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June 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Excited to have a new poem out in this issue alongside many excellent poets and writers!
variantlit.com/ginsberg-in-...
variantlit.com/ginsberg-in-...
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
Loves Labors
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June 1, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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
New poem published in Halfway Down the Stairs! You can check it out here:
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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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June 1, 2025 at 8:12 PM
New poem published in Halfway Down the Stairs! You can check it out here:
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Thrilled to get my hands on my contributor’s copy of Saw Palm! Check them out if you love Floridian literature and art 🍊🌴
May 20, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Thrilled to get my hands on my contributor’s copy of Saw Palm! Check them out if you love Floridian literature and art 🍊🌴