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.

New poem of mine in the Bangalore Review! bangalorereview.com/2026/02/spri...

Thrilled for my poem “Tiresias on a a Smoke Break” to appear in this issue! www.upthestaircase.org/oliver-brook...

Only 5 more days to submit!

Thrilled and grateful to have two poems in the latest issue of Crab Orchard Review!

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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

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Our Gearhart Poetry Contest is open for a few more weeks, so consider sending your work our way!

Our fall issue’s here! 🥳

Southeast Review is pleased to share our Pushcart nominee choices for 2025.

#pushcart #pushcartprize #nominations #literaryawards

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…

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

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. 💔www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/arts/andrea-g...

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