Boy with Thorn(1st Edition) (Pitt Poetry Series) by RickeyLaurentiis Paperback, 104 Pages, Published 2015 by University Of Pittsburgh Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-6381-3, ISBN: 0-8229-6381-7
"Winner of the 2016 Levis Reading PrizeWinner of the 2014 Cave Canem Poetry Prize Finalist for the 2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award Rickey Luarentiis is a winner of a 2018 Whiting Writers Prize In a landscape at once the brutal American South as it is the brutal mind, Boy with Thorn interrogates the genesis of all poetic creation—the imagination itself, questioning what role it plays in both our fascinations with and repulsion from a nati ..."
"Prime: Poetry & Conversation is a first-of-its-kind document of poetry and ongoing conversation in the black, queer literary community, a necessity as the historically well-indexed canon of white queer writers continues to grow with little diversity. Sparked into existence by a Best American Poetry blog from Jericho Brown in which he singled out some of the most exciting young, black, and gay men writing today, Prime features poems by a ..."
""Los Angeles Review of Books" is an independent, nonprofit, multimedia literary and cultural arts magazine that combines the great American tradition of the serious book review with the evolving technologies of online publishing. "LARB" has quickly established itself as a thriving institution for writers and readers. The "LARB Quarterly Journal, " a signature print edition, reflects the best that this institution brings to a national an ..."
"Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry is an anthology of poems by more than one hundred award-winning poets, including Jericho Brown, Justin Philip Reed, and Tracy K. Smith, with themed essays on poetics from celebrated scholars such as Kwame Dawes, Meta DuEwa Jones, and Evie Shockley. The Furious Flower Poetry Center is the nation’s first academic center for Black poetry. In this eponymous collection, editors Jo ..."
Pitt Poetry Boy with Thorn by RickeyLaurentiis 88 Pages, Published 2015 by University Of Pittsburgh Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-8106-0, ISBN: 0-8229-8106-8
"... teachers, friends, and family alike—always for their degrees of light and shade:
Robert M. Whitehead, Phillip B. Williams, L. Lamar Wilson, Caitlin Tyler, Nicole
Sealey, Solmaz Sharif, Emilyn Sosa, Javier Stevens, Roger Reeves, Miriam Pace
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"This tie-in book to the international biennial in New Orleans features the work of more than fifty artists from nearly twenty countries. Prospect New Orleans is one of the leading biennials of international contemporary art in the United States. It showcases new artistic practices from around the world in a setting that is both historic and culturally exceptional. This volume brings together the artists and work featured in Prospect.3. ..."