A powerful poem responding to Basquiat’s work is by Rickey Laurentiis, in his Boy With Thorn (2015). I discuss both Laurentiis’ poem and Basquiat—as well as poems by A. R. Ammons and Arthur Sze (currently the U.S. Poet Laureate)—in my essay “Linked In: Ecopoems as Connectomes.” The essay will be published in Contemporary Literature, summer 2026.
