Rickey Laurentiis is the winner of the 2016 Levis Reading Prize awarded by the Department of English and its MFA in Creative Writing program at Virginia Commonwealth University for his first poetry collection, “Boy with Thorn” (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015). […]
I. If you see me praying in the living room, never sit in front of me. You are not God.
II. When we go to a restaurant and I don’t know any foods on the menu, never order me a meal that is spelled with silent letters. I came to eat, not to explore. […]
The first time I couldn’t save myself in that clamor seized by the hair
Even now the evening panic ensues
below my heart just there in the center of my body anthem of no […]
There are no orchards. The air is water. Everywhere, curves.
I was meant to serve as a warrior, but here […]
making a spectacle of the messiah
5 doctors sit to evaluate my brother Jon,
to see if he can be released from the psych ward. […]
Then it was easy to live without love, to roll
through other people’s lives, always a visitor. […]
Beneath the mattress in the top bunk
of the boys room was a haunting of manhood, […]
Interview with Phillip B. Williams […]
There is nothing left to tell
about the watch I kept,
regularly irregular, the hands
reached to strike. My flinching, […]
sum enlightened whtdude cldn’t b content 2 look @ the sky[just look] or lack an explanation. nd bc
i keep trying to read myself out of these niggardly precognitions i kno epistemology is a branch of phil […]
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