Oliveira Poetry offers moments of poetry to refresh, restore, and reinvigorate.
Why subscribe?
Subscribe to get the Poem of the Week (PotW) sent to your inbox on Thursdays. Subscribing also grants access to the PotW archives, opportunity for submission of your own poetry, and welcome to a community of poetry enjoyers and writers. Wow!
A poem, for you, every week
The Poem of the Week goes directly to your email inbox every (most (some)) Thursday morning. You won’t have to worry about missing anything. E-Z-P-Z!
Reading is self-care!
Establish a healthy routine of taking a moment of your week to read, reflect, and reenergize. Each newsletter is bite-sized and easily digestible. Yum!
Who (or what!?) is Oliveira Poetry?
Oliveira Poetry is a weekly newsletter of poetry curated by (and sometimes created by) me, Ricky, the chill dude in the photo.
Here’s why you should subscribe.
I created Oliveira Poetry to share poetry with my community, showcase my own writing to the world, and promote writers that uphold ideas I’m inspired by. Ideally, Oliveira Poetry is also to become a community of poetics beyond my own writing.
In 2021, I started a weekly email chain with a small circle of coworkers. Teaching in an urban public high school is not easy, so each week I sent my lovely coworkers a poem I love to ease our stressed minds. It was fun! The mini-dialogue in our email forum was engaging, a quick reprieve from the labor.
Thursdays became the day I gave myself time to dig through undergrad material, mindfully scroll Twitter, or write in order to find the perfect poem. That hobby added to my love for curating (and occasionally writing) good poetry.
The Poem of the Week comes from this hobby: each poem featured in the PotW series is either a poem that speaks to me or a poem that is written from me.
I have been a lover and writer of poetry since my sappy teenage years. I formally studied poetry in my even sappier college years, taught Creative Writing and various forms of writing for the past few years, was an assistant editor for a very cool online journal of poetry, and am currently becoming a “master” in the “fine” “art” of “writing.” So, ya know, the poetry I send out will be decent, one would hope.
Oliveira Poetry (with Poem of the Week) is an attempt to extend my own roots while sharing my favorites from the current ecosystem of modern poetry. Subscribe today and let’s grow together.
PS — The ‘de Oliveira’ in my name and the site’s namesake roughly translates from Portuguese to English as “of the olive tree.” I hope the poems in PotW are olives without pits, so you don’t have to spit anything out.
