About
Mickie Kennedy is a gay poet and entrepreneur who splits his time between Baltimore County, Maryland and Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
Kennedy is the winner of Button Poetry's 2025 Chapbook Prize, and the winner of the 2024 Ellen Conroy Kennedy Poetry Contest.
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He's the author of two books: Worth Burning (Black Lawrence Press, 2026), and Glandscapes (Button Poetry, 2025). His work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, POETRY, The Threepenny Review, The Southern Review, The Sun, and elsewhere.
Kennedy’s poems dance and squirm. A rural Southern childhood, distorted by grief and abuse. The collision of sex and death, illness and health. Gay desire spectered by AIDS. Through it all, an abiding sense of humor punches space into the narrowest closets.
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Follow him on socials @MickiePoet ​​