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Oak Morse

Oak Morse lives in Houston, Texas, where he teaches creative writing and theatre and leads a youth poetry troop, the Phoenix Fire-Spitters. He was the winner of the 2017 Magpie Award for Poetry in Pulp Literature, a Finalist for the 2020 Witness Literary Award and the 2021 Terrain.Org Prize for Poetry. Currently a Warren Wilson MFA candidate, Oak has received a Pushcart Prize nomination, fellowships from Brooklyn Poets, Twelve Literary Arts, Palm Beach Poetry Festival as well as a Stars in the Classroom honor from the Houston Texans. A recipient of the 2021 Cave Canem’s Starshine and Clay Fellowship, his work appears in Black Warrior Review, Obsidian, Tupelo, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Nimrod, Terrain.org, Witness, among others. IG oak_morse, FB oak.morse