Writing & Press
Media
Segment for PBS Newshour’s Brief but Spectacular
Online
“A Bluff City Blues” (Essay), Oxford American
“Dear Absent,” American Poetry Review
“Elegy with TV Repairman & the Black Moth of Light,” The Montreal Prize
“Juneteenth Mortgage Montage in Blue,” The Montreal Prize
“Silencer to the Heart While Jogging Through a Park,” Oxford American
“Film Noir at Gallop Park, On Edge,” The Nation
The POetry Foundation
The Academy of American Poets
Press & INterviews
Dear Mothership Named Top Ten Fall 26 Forthcoming Poetry Collection by Publishers Weekly
Wicker Added to South Arts Touring Roster Providing Matching Grant Support to Southern Orgs That Book Him in 26/27
Marcus Launches the Memphis Writing Workshop
Wicker Selected as the 2025 Tennessee Literary Arts Fellow by South Arts
Marcus Wicker Selected as Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellow
“Technical, Tactical, and Merciless: An Interview with Marcus Wicker,” The Paris Review
“The Punch Like a Kiss on the Collarbone: An Interview with Marcus Wicker by Cate Lycurgus,” 32 Poems
“All of Us: Marcus Wicker on Comedy, Wu-Tang, and All That Influences His Poetry,” The Poetry Foundation
Interview: The Pen Ten with Marcus Wicker
Other Media
Marcus Wicker joins Ashley M. Jones for the Poetry Foundation Podcast
New Letters on the Air: An Interview with Marcus Wicker
“Prayer on Aladdin’s Lamp” featured on The Slowdown with Tracy K. Smith
Marcus Wicker Joins The Download with Justin Kauffman on WGN Radio