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David Gutowski @largeheartedboy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"My playlist is comprised of songs that soundtrack the ATLien’s journey, but also the seven years I spent writing the rest of the book..." Marcus Wicker shared a playlist for his poetry collection Dear Mothership at Largehearted Boy largeheartedboy.com/2026/09/09/m...

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Marcus Wicker @poetmarcuswicker.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Yup. He’ll have a new gig inside of a year, I’m sure.

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Marcus Wicker @poetmarcuswicker.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

New micro essay up at Oxford American today!🙌🏾

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Marcus Wicker @poetmarcuswicker.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Woke up today with this Charles Simic poem front of mind🪞

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Poetry Foundation @poetry.foundation · 16/03/2026

Don't miss this beautiful piece by @poetmarcuswicker.bsky.social!

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dirt of the looming dawn @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 10/03/2026

oh, this is gon be good! DEAR MOTHERSHIP the new poetry collection by @poetmarcuswicker.bsky.social dropping Sept. 8th...

photo of bookcover for Dear Mothership. poems by Marcus Wicker. cover is a colorful painting featuring a brown-skinned man wearing an unfastened button down shirt with t-shirt beneath and large sunglasses with blue circular lenses. pink flowers dangle at his ears like earrings with a matching crown of pink flowers on top of his head.

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Marcus Wicker @poetmarcuswicker.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

That was the most beautiful, cinematic, lit as hell half time show I’ve ever seen. And understood maybe three words.

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Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Every time I re-read Mueller, I'm reminded I should teach a class on her work:

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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Re-sharing this today! I wrote about an emerging millennial poetics of work, as represented through three great poetry books. fencedigital.com/2026/01/30/c...

A millennial poetics of work in late capitalist america. Feat. Works & Days by gina myers, I Was Working by Ariel Yelen, and Making a Living by Rosalie Moffett

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Marcus Wicker @poetmarcuswicker.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Mannn I was so mad I missed Kamasi. I bet he and the band showed out too!

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Marcus Wicker @poetmarcuswicker.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen: Common & John Legend Esperanza Spalding A Tribe Called Quest reunion show at Rock the Bells Chicago Roy Hargrove Frankie Beverly

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Marcus Wicker @poetmarcuswicker.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

My 1-month-old son is instantly soothed by Luther Vandross’ “Never Too Much.” So basically we’re nailing parenthood over here.

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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Aracelis Girmay ♥️

To Waste My Hands

Three years ago, I stood on the dock near my father's house while the small shark suffocated & was killed.

He was like an angel culled up from the purple sea. & the air smashed into him like an anvil

& his muscles sank desperately into the ribs. Terrible

terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible to watch him that way. More terrible to waste my hands, just
standing.

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Oxford American @oxfordamerican.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

“I’ve got the blues and I don’t, but I do.” — @poetmarcuswicker.bsky.social details the National Guard’s arrival in Memphis, Tennessee, where the governor has authorized federal government intervention to carry out anti-immigration initiatives. 🔗: shorturl.at/rOP5B

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Marcus Wicker @poetmarcuswicker.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I’ve been giving myself permission to complete some essays on my first love, music. Thanks to @oxfordamerican.bsky.social for running this piece about how the blues can become a sanctuary & rallying cry, an outlet for communal joy in a moment of political tension. oxfordamerican.org/oa-now/a-blu...

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A Bluff City Blues

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Luvell Anderson @luke-rage.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

the incomparable Marcus Wicker @poetmarcuswicker.bsky.social I love the way this begins: "Protected by contoured sunglasses, body armor, and Military Police shields stitched to their backs, the National Guard have come to combat crime at the Bass Pro Shop." oxfordamerican.org/oa-now/a-blu...

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A Bluff City Blues

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Another perfect New Year's Day poem. From Jane Hirshfield's book, After: bookshop.org/a/862/9780060779191 #poem #books #writing

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The American Poetry Review @ampoetryreview.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

⏰ Last call for entries! Deadline is 11:59pm EST Jan 1! The Stern Prize is open to all poets age 50+, regardless of previous publication history. The prize of $2,000 will be awarded in 2026 with publication by APR in partnership with Copper Canyon Press in the following year. More: loom.ly/JUkTfFM

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Marcus Wicker @poetmarcuswicker.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Started my Christmas by dancing around the living room with baby in my arms to the Marcus King Band at 4 AM & then working on a poem🎄🎅🏾

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The Slowdown @slowdownshow.org · 28/11/2025

"Today’s poem charmed me immediately with its imagination and its restraint," host @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shared in today's episode of The Slowdown, number 1406. "It’s also a poem I want to read again as soon as I finish it." Read "Paperweight" by Ryan Teitman: bit.ly/4oZE6fH

Text graphic featuring a portion of Ryan Teitman's poem: Every few months or so, I turn into a rock. First, my joints stiffen as if there’s weather coming. Then, I get the urge to read some doorstop novel. Finally, I become a rock. A smallish one, usually. My wife isn’t surprised anymore. She picks me up from the kitchen floor or the driveway and sets me on her desk as a paperweight. It’s nice to have a singular purpose.

Photograph of poet Ryan Teitman. He's a bearded white man and is wearing glasses and a blue sweater.

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Marcus Wicker @poetmarcuswicker.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

No matter what, an hour spent talking shit in the barbershop is alway gonna lift me up. It’s also always mad insightful, for better or worse. & when it’s worse, man…

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The Slowdown @slowdownshow.org · 16/10/2025

"Today’s poem is so relatable, because the speaker is doing what I so often do: watching videos on the internet in the middle of the night," says host @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social in episode 1375. Read “Dear Absent," by @poetmarcuswicker.bsky.social and our full episode transcript: bit.ly/4nUopG3

graphic featuring a portion of Marcus Wicker's poem

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The Slowdown @slowdownshow.org · 24/09/2025

"Today’s poem speaks to the ways we can care for one another, and of how profound and meaningful even the smallest gestures are,” shares host @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social in today’s episode. Read “Lotioning My Mother’s Back” by Ama Codjoe: bit.ly/3KCwVKR 📖: @milkweededitions.bsky.social

Graphic featuring a portion of Ama Codjoe's poem "Lotioning My Mother's Back"

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Marcus Wicker @poetmarcuswicker.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Just got to email zero. It may never happen again this year, & that’ll have to do.

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Marcus Wicker @poetmarcuswicker.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Fit check for the first day, year 9 in Memphis

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Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Today’s poem is selected by Emily Skaja (@emilyskaja.bsky.social‬) as part of the 20th anniversary of Read A Little Poetry. It appeared in The Master Letters by Lucie Brock-Broido, published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. Shared here with deep gratitude.

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Marcus Wicker @poetmarcuswicker.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

My favorite poet showing out, showing her whole heart❤️ @emilyskaja.bsky.social

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Marcus Wicker @poetmarcuswicker.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Go with the Inkwell! It’s fly, and the sun is beaming too damn hard to wear a black hat everyday

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Marcus Wicker @poetmarcuswicker.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

I’ve worn my Blowout Comb shirt in NYC, Detroit, & Chicago. But in the last 10 minutes 4 people have stopped me to say “Digable Planets changed my life.” Which is to say, Memphis is a real ass music town & people forget to say that part. When I say people I mean media. & people who don’t go outside.

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Only just now discovering this Lucille Clifton poem dedicated to Clark Kent.

if i should

to clark kent

enter the darkest room
in my house and speak
with my own voice, at last,
about its awful furniture,
pulling apart the covering
over the dusty bodies; the randy
father, the husband holding ice
in his hand like a blessing,
the mother bleeding into herself
and the small imploding girl,
i say if i should walk into
that web, who will come flying
after me, leaping tall buildings?
you?

(By Lucille Clifton)

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Marcus Wicker @poetmarcuswicker.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Apparently I can only be a morning writer on Fridays, camped out in front of the living room windows at 6 am with a draft & Gatorade bribes for the garbage men who forget our bins whenever I sleep in. Which is honestly some 40-year-old shit I never imagined for myself. #writers

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

This poem by @aireadee.bsky.social lifted me this morning on its Icarus wings. "Light refracts my name in dialect only moths comprehend."

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Altitude

Icarus, he advised, heed the warning: don’t fly

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Wanda Coleman

i see myself thrown heart first into this ruin

not for any crime
but being

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