[3] After completing a degree in Classical Literature and Languages, Minicucci pursued his MFA at the University of Illinois; he has trained with Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Tyehimba Jess, and A.

In his citation for the Oregon Book Award, judge and 2019 Pulitzer-prize winner Forrest Gander remarkedThe lexicon is inordinately rich, somehow both precise and lush.

And the poems are insistently but never portentously philosophical, grounded as they are in bailing twine, bared teeth, baptismal tears.

Disinterested in irony, softly-toned, Minicucci opens depths inside us that we can sense long after we’ve closed his book.

He serves as a member of the advisory board for Ninth Letter, and as senior poetry editor to Silk Road Review: A Literary Crossroads.