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Brandy Is My Queer Fairy Godmother

Two poems by Oak Morse

Brandy Is My Queer Fairy Godmother

Track Heat Black Gene

or, a breathless double-sonnet of you-misunderstand-me

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A Portrait of Black Man Wrestling with His Secret Self

or, an inner cosplay ode to the singer Brandy

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About the Author

Oak Morse lives in Houston, Texas, and holds an MFA from Warren Wilson and an MLIS from the University of Southern Mississippi. He won the 2025 Larry Levis Post-Graduate Award and the 2024 A Public Space Writing Fellowship. Oak has received support from PEN America and has won fellowships from Brooklyn Poets, Twelve Literary Arts, Cave Canem's Starshine, and Clay, as well as a Stars in the Classroom honor from the Houston Texans. His work appears in POETRY, Black Warrior Review, Obsidian, Up The Staircase Quarterly, Indiana Review, Cream City Review, and Painted Bride Quarterly, among others.

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