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Benjamin Gucciardi

Originally from San Francisco, Benjamin Gucciardi had his first book, West Portal (University of Utah Press, 2021), selected by Gabrielle Calvocoressi for the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry. His poems have appeared in AGNI, American Poetry Review, Poetry, On Being’s Poetry Unbound, and elsewhere.

Far Corners Folio

Winter 2025

Thread Count

By Benjamin Gucciardi

The Kenyon Review · “Thread Count” by Benjamin Gucciardi How many fingers how many pricks from how many bracts how many gallons sucked from which river in what state of […]