Mickie Kennedy
Award-winning poet. Best New Poets 2024. Pushcart Prize Nominee. Finalist for the Pablo Neruda Prize.
Author of Worth Burning (Black Lawrence Press, 2026) and Glandscapes (Button Poetry, 2025)
“Mickie Kennedy’s poems are harrowing, authentic, and brilliantly attuned to the deeply observed image. Worth Burning is worth everything.”
Diane Seuss, author of Modern Poetry and Pulitzer Prize winner
Praise
"Glandscapes is a triumph, is massively generous, and also just plainly a pleasure to read."
Hanif Abdurraqib, author of
A Little Devil in America
“Kennedy's arresting debut, Worth Burning, is unapologetic, life-affirming. No recent book of poems has more lushly and precisely rendered a world and the difficult and wonderful people who make it real.”
Richie Hofmann, author of A Hundred Lovers