Brooke Spalding

Midwest poet, essayist, food writer, lowkey bisexual, community college instructor, and overall indulger from Kansas City, Missouri.

Brooke Spalding

Midwest poet, essayist, food writer, lowkey bisexual, community college instructor, and overall indulger from Kansas City Missouri.

"Missouri Pastoral 01" • Finalist for the annual Phoebe Poetry Prize • Published in issue 54.2 of Phoebe Journal • May 2025.

"Sonnet With a Husband" • Published in Moon City Review • Spring 2025.

"Sonnet with my bloody valentine and Pussies" • Published in the Tampa Review, University of Tampa Press • January 2025.

“Butter Haiku,” “Butter Sonnet,” and “Self-Portrait of a Chicken” • Published in Juste Milleau • Winter 2024.

“Grocery Store” • Published in Bullshit Lit, Second Anthology • 2023.

"PRAIRIE MADNESS," "Bread and Circuses," "Missouri Pastoral 05: Minibar," "Thin," and "Ass Up in the Garden" • Forthcoming publication in Always Crashing
magazine.

"PECULIAR, MO,” and “A CALLBACK,”  Forthcoming publication in discount guillotine.

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