Marcus Wicker
@a2poet
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Maybe the Saddest Thing & Silencer (@eccobooks). 23/24 Harvard @RadInstitute Fellow. @uofmemphis MFA Prof. @NEAarts Fellow. Human as all get-out.
Memphis, TN
Joined January 2010
I’ve got news! I’m headed to Harvard and the Radcliffe Institute next year with a host of incredible fellows. I’m really excited to take this time, finish book 3, and work on some new-new things too! So grateful🙏🏾✨
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Happy Pub Day to my polycephalic goat kid, my virgo baby, the great and tender animal i pulled from my own ribs. seven years of labor solidified into this one moment. below is a thread of all the poems in the book that are (currently) published.
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Late Season Creative Writing VAP opportunity at the University of Memphis MFA program. Wonderful students and faculty in a great food and music town with a relatively low cost of living. The position begins THIS Fall (25). Please share! https://t.co/UJ1IqIVXcp
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“In the dollhouse section, I bought a small ceiling fan. / Re-created his black leather couch, even found miniscule // soda cans for the cardboard counters that I cut and glued. / People get weird about divorce.” —@TianaClarkPoet, “Proof”
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I once made a diorama from a shoebox / for a man I loved.
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we’re less than three months out from “Bloodmercy” being in the world. big thanks to the editors at @GrantaMag for giving two of the weirdest poems in my book a home! thanks for reading https://t.co/BHZAXdUDZq
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I’m judging the 2025 Akron Poetry Prize. Send your manuscripts, tell your students, friends. Deadline: June 15th #poetry
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Really wish they would've included this. It was the second half of the "Be" intro produced by Kanye. I was told Common/Kanye cut it at the last minute because it didn't fit the vibe of the album. I agree but it's still a crazy record.
Okay so Common’s 20th anniversary edition of ‘Be’ included no unheard gems from him and 2005-era Kanye, but we did finally get the studio version of “The Food” on DSPs and the very rare J Dilla collab “The Movement”
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“I have always had dreams that repeat, and in these dreams I wrestle with grief, with unbearable loss, whatever the loss is.” —Vievee Francis #AboutThisPoem
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How to begin the story without being obvious:
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It's been a bit since I've been on this app, but I'm resurfacing to say my third poetry collection, DEAR MOTHERSHIP, is forthcoming from @eccobooks in 2026! I've experienced a lot of life & loss & love since Silencer, & it's all on display in this book. Can't wait to share✨
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cover reveal and pre-order link for “Bloodmercy”: https://t.co/SyHqL9UBVh Image Credit: “Africaine No. 2” by Shawn Theodore from his “Future Antebellum” series
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Dear humans, Just wanted to share something I've been quiet about, in the year of my usual self-doubt, with gratitude to @sarabandebooks and to many others whom I look forward to thanking in the coming months, MY HERESIES, forthcoming in April 2025. 🖤 https://t.co/NePGvk1Ayu
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Behold My Heresies : the latest and highly anticipated poetry collection from Alina Stefanescu. Riven by the tension between hagiographies, utopias, belief, longing, and grief, the poems of My...
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The small and precious light in this poem by @a2poet has been with me all evening. I am sharing it because is one of the gentlest, most tender elegies I've read. https://t.co/VCMMrSvln5
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Published in American Poetry Review - Volume 53 | No. 06
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“It was night in a dense forest. My country turned its back to me. I opened up to scream, the storm’s wind rushed in and in the dark, I coughed up someone else’s grief.” An offering today @yalereview
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A poem by Camille Rankine: "I thought there was a truth / we could agree on . . ."
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Join us at 144 Montague or online via Zoom on November 9 for "Personal Machines: Invented Forms," a craft lab with @Danez_Smif to raise funds for the Zaynab Project, co-sponsored by @Workshops4Gaza! https://t.co/VIj3oyGZ1e
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OUT NOW! Check out our virtual series for the 2024 Dodge Poetry Festival, featuring @DanezSmith, @AnastaciaRenee2, @a2poet +more, available now at https://t.co/duM7tvNYsx.
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the author >> the first page Cloud Missives, debut book of poetry, out now from @Tin_House ☁️💌 — https://t.co/PZIamnxund
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