{"id":1324,"date":"2026-01-15T14:18:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T19:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2026-01-15T14:22:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T19:22:05","slug":"basquiats-drawing-undiscovered-genius-of-the-mississippi-delta-c-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/?p=1324","title":{"rendered":"Basquiat&#8217;s drawing &#8220;Undiscovered Genius of the Mississippi Delta&#8221;   c. 1983"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A powerful poem responding to Basquiat&#8217;s work is by Rickey Laurentiis, in his <em>Boy With Thorn<\/em> (2015). I discuss both Laurentiis&#8217; poem and Basquiat\u2014as well as poems by A. R. Ammons and Arthur Sze (currently the U.S. Poet Laureate)\u2014in my essay &#8220;Linked In: Ecopoems as Connectomes.&#8221; The essay will be published in <em>Contemporary Literature,<\/em> summer 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Basquiat-drawing.tiff\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Basquiat-drawing.tiff\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1325\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A powerful poem responding to Basquiat&#8217;s work is by Rickey Laurentiis, in his Boy With Thorn (2015). I discuss both Laurentiis&#8217; poem and Basquiat\u2014as well as poems by A. R. Ammons and Arthur Sze (currently the U.S. Poet Laureate)\u2014in my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/?p=1324\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1328,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions\/1328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}