Creative Writing Professor Marcus Wicker Presents Dear Mothership: Poems at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute - January 31st, 2024
"Marcus Wicker is a poet from Ann Arbor, Michigan, and an associate professor of creative writing at the University of Memphis. He is the author of Silencer (Mariner Books, 2017)—winner of the Midland Authors Award and the Arnold Adoff Award for New Voices—and Maybe the Saddest Thing (Harper Perennial, 2012), selected by D. A. Powell for the National Poetry Series. Wicker’s work addresses the diverse experiences of Black Americans using hip hop, jazz, and the subversion of traditional poetic forms. At Radcliffe, Wicker is completing Dear Mothership, a book of poetry that uses speculative narrative, empathy, and a hip hop aesthetic to explore reparations and examine the confounding ways humans treat one another when empowered by history and inheritance."