Rickey Laurentiis

Books

Boy with Thorn (Full Length: University of Pittsburgh, 2015)

Prime (Chapbook: Little Rock: Sibling Rivalry Press, 2014)
Whipped (Chappbook: Floating Wolf Quarterly, 2013)

Publications 

Poetry in Journals & Literary Magazines

2020

• “Iris Song," Shelter in Poems, Academy of Americans Poets

2018

• “The Making of the Complete Lover,” Hayden’s Ferry Review 
• “Vulnerability or Riding with Death,” The Scores (UK)
• "2019," Poem-A-Day, Academy of American Poets
• "Lyric," Cassius
  

2016

• "Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame," Literary Hub

2015

• “Continuance,” The New Republic
• "Untitled (Fragment)," Connotation Press
• Feeling Myself," Connotation Press
• “Confrontation and Proof,” Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly 
  
• “Memory and Happiness,” The New England Review
  
• “Undiscovered Genius of the Mississippi Delta,” Boston Review
• “Boy with Thorn,” Fence
  
•  “He who Refuses Does Not Repent,” Fence
• "Epithalamion," Poem-A-Day, Academy of American Poets

2014

• "Lord and Chariot," The Kenyon Review
  
• “Black Gentleman,” Poetry
  
• “I Came I Saw Two Men,” Poetry
  
• “Study in Black,” Poetry
  
• “Writing an Elegy,” Poetry
  
• “Of the Leaves That Have Fallen,” Boston Review
  

2013

• “Goodnight,” The Economy
  
• “Deep Purple,” The Economy, 
  
• “Ghost,” The Economy
  
• “Vanitas with Negro Boy,” The Paris-American
  
• “A Southern Wind,” The Paris-American
  
•  “Conditions for a Southern Gothic,” Callaloo

2012

• "Southern Gothic," Poetry
  
• "Swing Low," Poetry
  
• "You Are Not Christ" (reprint), Poetry
  
• "Epitaph at the Foot of the Stone," Anti-
  
• "Quiet Please," Anti-
  
• “Cirrhosis,” Lo-Ball Magazine
  
• “One Look At You, My Heart Grows Tipsy,” Lo-Ball Magazine
  
• “Stung,” Feminist Studies
  
• “Hither-and-Yon,” Alaska Quarterly Review
  
• "No Ararat," Linebreak
  
• "Carnal Knowledge," Muzzle Magazine
  
• “Faggot,” Knockout Literary Magazine, 
  
• “Modern Ripple,” Knockout Literary Magazine
  
• “—Me Tangere,” Knockout Literary Magazine
  

2011

• “One Country,” Callaloo
  
• “To Be Brought to Water,” Callaloo
  
• “Do You Feel Me?” Callaloo
  
• “Mood for Love,” The Feminist Wire
  
• “Take it Easy,” The Feminist Wire
  
• “Down Atlantis,” Tidal Basin Review
  

2010

• “Crescendo,” jubilat
  
• “Black Iris, Vinyl
  
• “What I Hear In Your Eyes,” Vinyl
  
• “Mood Indigo,” PANK (reprint)
  
• “Mood Indigo,” Ganymede
  
• “Way Down Yonder,” Indiana Review
  
• “You Are Not Christ,” The Collagist
  
• “Final Poem for the Body,” Poets for Living Waters
  
• “Honeycombed,” Nashville Review
  
• “Southern Light,” Nashville Review

2009

• “Ghazalfor Emmett Till,” The Other Journal
  
• “FULL,” DIAGRAM
  

Anthologies & Art Books 

2018

• “Boy with Thorn,” Nepantla: A Journal of QPOC Poetry, ed. Christopher Soma

2017

• “Visible City,” A Tale of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation, ed. John Freeman

2016

• "Vanitas with Negro Boy," "Black Iris," Brooklyn Poets Anthology, ed. by Jason Koo
  

2015

• “Of the Leaves That Have Fallen” (excerpts), ExtraordinaryRendition:(American) Writers Speak of Palestine, edited by Ru Freeman
  
• "Boy with Thorn," "Vanitas with Negro Boy," Bettering American Poetry, ed. various

2014

• "Visible City," Prospect.3 Notes for Now, ed. Franklin Sirmans

2011

• “Vignette,” Collective Brightness: LGBTIQ Poets on Faith, Religion and Spirituality, ed. Kevin Simmonds
• “Do You Feel Me?,” (reprint) Chorus: A Literary Mixtape, ed. Saul Williams

2010

• “Attraction,” “Church of Abraham,” “FULL,” (reprint) “Ghazal for Emmett Till,”(reprint) Mighty Real: An Anthology of African American Same Gender Loving Writing, ed. R. BryantSmith and Darius Omar Williams

Selected Essays & Short Prose

• “Remember I am Flesh, or the Ecstasy of Devan Shimoyama,” Cry Baby (The Andy Warhol Museum art catalogue)
• "Writing Home," Sarah Lawrence Magazine
• "A Speech Imperfectly Her Own: Camille Rankine’s Incorrect Merciful Impulses," Gloom Cupboard
• Baltimore Mother & Son, Quartz
• “Kinds of Dark,” HARRIET, Poetry Foundation
  
• “Unleash the Queen,” Visual Aids
  
• “On Komunyakaa’s Surprise,” Voltage Poetry 
  
• Rickey Laurentiis Recommends, Poets & Writers
  

Interviews & Published Conversations 

2017

• Empathy is an End Point: Solmaz Sharif and Rickey Laurentiis in Conversation, Sublevel Magazine

2016

• A Conversation with Rickey Laurentiis, Blackbird
• Tiny Spills | Rickey Laurentiis, Cosmonauts Avenue
• Solmaz Sharif's Look, Late Night Library
• We Need to be Able to See Each Others’ Wounds, NOLA Defender
• Fractures Through Time, Poets and Writers

2015

• Rickey Laurentiis' Boy with Thorn, Late Night Library
• Poet of the Week, Brooklyn Poets, 2015
• Rickey Laurentiis and Carl Phillips in Conversation, Nepantla
• Rickey Laurentiis, Lightbox

2014

• The Kenyon Review Conversation, Kenyon Review

2013

• Divisions and Connections in Queerdom: A Conversation Between Rickey Laurentiis and Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Lamba Literary Review
• Talking Poetry with Rickey Laurentiis, NEA’s The Big Read

2011

• Meet Rickey Laurentiis, Series Poet, Spring 2011, Tidal Basin Review

2010

• Interview: Rickey Laurentiis, The Collagist

Awards, Fellowships and Honors

• 2018
  • Whiting Fellowship 
  • Saint Paul de Vence James Baldwin Writer in Residence, Finalist
  
  2017
  • Lannan Literary Fellowship 
  • Fellowship in Creative Writing, Center for African American Poetry and Poetics, University of Pittsburgh
  • Read My World Literary Festival (Amsterdam, the Netherlands), Invitation
  • Kate Tufts Discovery Award, Finalist 
  
  2016
  • Levis Reading Prize
  • Breadloaf Bakeless Fellowship
  • Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, Finalist
  • Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry
  • Palestine Festival of Literature (Jerusalem, Palestine), Invitation
  
  2015
  • Julie Suk Award, Jacar Press
  • Poets & Writers named Boy with Thorn one of "Top Ten Debut Poetry Books of 2015.
  • Buzzfeed named Boy with Thorn one of "Top 16 Best Poetry Books” of 2015.
  • Buzzfeed named Boy with Thorn named one of "24 Best Literary Debuts” of 2015.
  • Literary Hub named Boy with Thorn one of the best poetry collections of 2015.
  • The Poetry Foundation named Boy with Thorn a Staff Book Pick by
  • Split This Rock named Boy with Thorn a "Books We Love” in 2015. 
  • Minnesota Public Radio named Boy with Thorn a "Most Meaningful Read" Pick. 
  • Advocate named Boy with Thorn one of six books to read for LGBT readers.
  
  2014
  • Cave Canem Poetry Prize
  • Civitella Ranieri Foundation Residency (Umbertide, Italy)
  
  2013
  • National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship 
  • Chancellor’s Graduate Fellowship, Washington University in St Louis
  
  2012
  • Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship, Poetry Foundation 
  • The Alonzo Davis Fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
  • Chancellor’s Graduate Fellowship, Washington University in St Louis
  
  2011
  • Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Work-Study (Waiters’) Scholarship
  • Chancellor’s Graduate Fellowship, Washington University in St Louis
  • National Poetry Series, Finalist
  • 'your word' Fellowship, Atlantic Center for the Arts
  • Discovery”/Boston Review Poetry Award, Semi-finalist
  • Stanley and Evelyn Lipkin Prize for Poetry, Sarah Lawrence College
  • Cave Canem Fellowship
  
  2010
  • Benjamin Saltman Award in Poetry First Book Prize, Honorable Mention, 
  • Puschart Prize Nomination, “Black Iris,” Vinyl
  • Cave Canem Fellowship
  
  2009
  • Reginald Shepherd Memorial Prize, 1st & 3rd Runner-up,
  • Cave Canem Fellowship