Video: Rico Frederick

Rico Frederick is a graphic designer and the author of Broken Calypsonian (Penmanship Books). He holds an MFA in Writing from Pratt Institute, is a Poets House Emerging Poets Fellow, a Cave Canem Fellow, and the first poet to represent all four original New York City poetry venues at the National Poetry Slam. Rico is a Trinidadian transplant, lives in New York, loves gummy bears, and scribbles poems on the back of maps in the hope they will take him someplace new. Find Rico’s poem “These Bones Break Bread” in the great weather for MEDIA anthology Birds Fall Silent in the Mechanical Sea.

Hosted by Thomas Fucaloro.

A weekly ten minute featured poet series curated by great weather for MEDIA.