Brittany Olson

Britt Olson was the 2024 Charlotte Goodlit Poetry Fellow with Goodyear Arts, the Charlotte Center for Literary Arts, and the West Trade Review. Her work has appeared in Nova Literary Arts Magazine, Sanskrit Literary Arts Magazine, Kakalak Anthology of Poets & Artists, and in the Charlotte Art League's Ekphrastic Exhibit. Britt teaches at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Member since November, 2024

Connect:

Featured Article

Happiness Poetics

The poet need not always be despondent.

READ NOW

"'Happy poems' don’t depend on naive giddiness to evoke their effect.... In this way they require a particular wisdom, an emotional awareness and depth, and a brave choice to turn the poem towards themes of unity and hopefulness."

"'Happy poems' don’t depend on naive giddiness to evoke their effect.... In this way they require a particular wisdom, an emotional awareness and depth, and a brave choice to turn the poem towards themes of unity and hopefulness."

"'Happy poems' don’t depend on naive giddiness to evoke their effect.... In this way they require a particular wisdom, an emotional awareness and depth, and a brave choice to turn the poem towards themes of unity and hopefulness."

"'Happy poems' don’t depend on naive giddiness to evoke their effect.... In this way they require a particular wisdom, an emotional awareness and depth, and a brave choice to turn the poem towards themes of unity and hopefulness."