Matthew Minicucci’s first full-length collection, Translation, was chosen by Jane Hirshfield for the 2014 Wick Poetry Prize and will be published by Kent State University Press in 2015. His work has also appeared in or is forthcoming from numerous journals and anthologies, including Best New Poets 2014, Cincinnati Review, Massachusetts Review, Southern Review, and West Branch, among others. He currently teaches writing at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign.
Fall 2014
What we’re talking about here; Book Twenty-Five
What we’re talking about here
is brief: an end
to these machinations; an age of iron and rust.