Matthew Minicucci

Biography

Matthew Minicucci is the author of two collections of poetry: Translation (Kent State University Press, 2015), chosen by Jane Hirshfield for the 2014 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, and Small Gods, forthcoming from New Issues in 2017. He is the recipient of fellowships and awards from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Wick Poetry Center, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he received his MFA.

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POETRY / Spring 2017

An Old Man, Full of Days

By Matthew Minicucci

In the end, everything turns out
right, like the last ten verses
of Job, where rings are given
in supplication and apology. Where sheep