{"id":1225,"date":"2026-07-26T16:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T21:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/?p=1225"},"modified":"2026-09-25T08:17:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T13:17:43","slug":"marcus-wicker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/2026\/marcus-wicker\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcus Wicker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>author of Dear Mothership<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Born and raised in Michigan, Marcus Wicker now lives in Memphis and teaches poetry in the MFA program of the University of Memphis, where he also founded the Memphis Writing Workshop, an open-air community writing space. He is the author of three poetry collections <em>Dear Mothership<\/em>, <em>Silencer<\/em>, and <em>Maybe the Saddest Thing<\/em>, which was selected by D.A. Powell for the National Poetry Series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marcuswicker.com\/about\">Author Website<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theadroitjournal.org\/issue-fifty-eight\/a-conversation-with-marcus-wicker\/\">Interview in <em>Adroit<\/em><\/a><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-content-justification-right is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-2b4002ad wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"536\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/07\/mwicker_lg.jpg\" alt=\"Black man with glasses and brown suit jacket\" class=\"wp-image-1230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/07\/mwicker_lg.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/07\/mwicker_lg-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/07\/dearmothership.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of Dear Mothership by Marcus Wicker: Bust of a Black man with mirrored sunglasses and bright pink flowers behind his head.\" class=\"wp-image-1258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/07\/dearmothership.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/07\/dearmothership-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Mothership<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[63,47,60,61],"class_list":["post-1225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-33","tag-memphis","tag-poetry","tag-tennessee-writer","tag-university-of-memphis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1225"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1341,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions\/1341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}