[3] During his senior year at Emerson College, Stucky co-founded The Guerilla Poets, a group which gave spontaneous public poetry performances in non-traditional locations, such as streetcorners, malls, fast-food restaurants, and subways.

In 2004, Stucky founded Black Ocean,[6] an independent press publishing mostly poetry, with staff in Boston, Chicago, and Detroit, which he continues to run.

Stucky's poems have appeared in Cannibal, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Free Verse, No Tell Motel, North American Review, redivider, The Equalizer, and VOLT.

[11] He was a write-in candidate, competing against Sam Cornish, Robert Pinsky, Louise Gluck, Rosanna Warren, Margo Lockwood, and Frank Bidart.

Reasoning that these stores must therefore fight on different turf, he offers some concrete suggestions: establish a lively Web presence, feature expertly curated staff selections, and above all, host more events—that is, become a hub not just for reading material but for readings.Following his own advice, Stucky himself has been hosting the monthly BASH poetry reading series since 2011 at the Brookline Booksmith, an independent bookstore in Brookline, Massachusetts.

[19] Randolph Pfaff reviewed the book for apt, the literary journal of Aforementioned Productions: There are reminders here of the imagery of Paul Celan and Mina Loy, certainly, but Stucky's consistency of thought creates a throughline of loss and reconciliation—and more than anything else, the vast space in between the two—that is all his own.

The emotion here is raw as a fresh cut and Stucky's thoughtfulness and lucid diction give The World Will Deny It For You a resonance that is often absent from contemporary poetry.

[21] In conjunction with the release of this book, Stucky and several other poets gave readings that year under the rubric "Language Lessons" at the Newport Folk Festival.