Antonio Addessi

Antonio Addessi is currently studying poetry at Columbia University School of the Arts Creative Writing Program. He runs and teaches for Columbia’s Veteran Creative Writing Workshop and the Manhattan Veterans Affairs Center’s Creative Writing Workshop. An Iraqi War Veteran, he served in the US Navy from 2005-2011. In 2015, Antonio received his BA from the University of Maine in English. He was raised in Cleveland and lives in Harlem.

New Poetry by Antonio Addessi

You’d caught
the big one they said, you’d hooked a willow and
sank thigh deep into the muck. They hung up…