Marcus Wicker is the author of Silencer (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017) — winner of the Society of Midland Authors award — and Maybe the Saddest Thing (Harper Perennial, 2012), selected by D. A. Powell for the National Poetry Series. A 2023–24 Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellow, his honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, the Poetry Society of America’s Lyric Poetry Award, a Pushcart Prize, and a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, as well as fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and Cave Canem. Wicker’s poems have appeared in The Nation, The New Republic, The Atlantic, Oxford American, and Poetry.
Poetry
Spring 2024
Dear Mothership,
The Kenyon Review · “Dear Mothership,” by Marcus Wicker To commune w/ one another thru a language that never fails is as close as i have come to enlightenment i […]
Poetry
Spring 2024
ATLien Sees Sleepy Brown in Concert at City Winery, Drinks It In
The Kenyon Review · “ATLien Sees Sleepy Brown in Concert at City Winery, Drinks It In” by Marcus Wicker Moroccan oil–dabbed collarbones Shea butter pumice stones & all that pimp […]
Poetry
Jan/Feb 2017
Silencer with Blues & Birds on a Wire
My mind is playing tricks on me. —Geto Boys Will you miss the lone, stiff mister blue birdghosting it through a two-light town, in which you raise your chicks or […]