![Rickey Laurentiis Reclaims Trans Identity Antecedents in Death of the First Idea [INTERVIEW]](https://s3.castbox.fm/a6/e4/7c/8ce2f5beb8b576bee3fdb8d0274af94a34_scaled_v1_400.jpg "Rickey Laurentiis Reclaims Trans Identity Antecedents in Death of the First Idea [INTERVIEW]")
Rickey Laurentiis Reclaims Trans Identity Antecedents in Death of the First Idea [INTERVIEW]
Update: 2025-10-06
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Rickey Laurentiis is the author of Boy with Thorn, which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and the Levis Reading Prize. Laurentiis is the recipient of fellowships from the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics (CAAPP), the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Poetry Foundation, among others. Her poems have appeared in The New Republic, BOMB, and poets.org. A 2018 Whiting Award winner, she lives in New Orleans. Below are excerpts from the interview with James Morehead on the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast.
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