2017 Xmas Card Print
Dug into some personal history for this year’s Xmas card; I played the French horn from the 4th grade through high school. I was pretty good, too!
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Dug into some personal history for this year’s Xmas card; I played the French horn from the 4th grade through high school. I was pretty good, too!
Grave Cavalieri offered this insightful review of The Masque of Marilyn in the latest Washington Independent Review of Books: “Who doesn’t care about Marilyn Monroe; and how many Marilyn’s are there? The answer is as many as there are writers invoking her. Hittinger is known for his ability to combine myth, pop culture and philosophy Read More …
Grady Harp reviews The Masque of Marilyn in the San Francisco Review of Books: “The New York poet Matthew Hittinger is now in that realm of `important poets of our time’. The publications of his poems increases every year and his works appear in important poetry collections of the highest order. One reason for Hittinger’s Read More …
I was honored to be invited on The Poet and The Poem, Grace Cavalieri’s long-running program from The Library of Congress. I opened with a poem from Skin Shift and then we turned to The Masque of Marilyn and other topics, closing with a poem from The Erotic Postulate. Enjoy!
I have a new interview “12 or 20 (second series) questions with Matthew Hittinger” up at Rob McLennan’s Blog. Enjoy!
It’s been 15 years since I was last in Provincetown and at the FAWC. Back then it was for writing workshop vacations, summer respites from my first job before I got my MFA. I’ve kept my eye on their summer offerings over the years, but I’ve always had an uneasy relationship with writing workshops which Read More …
Another poem, “Yars’ Revenge“, up at The Good Men Project. This one’s for all those all school gaymers out there. Also appears in my new book The Masque of Marilyn as part of the “At the Museum of the Moving Image” sequence. Enjoy!
I’ll be reading Wednesday, July 19th at The Center for Book Arts at the Text/Form Reading. Organized by Barbara Henry, who taught the Letterpress Printing & Fine Press Publishing Seminar For Emerging Writers I took back in 2009, I’ll be reading from The Masque of Marilyn and some of the new poem-print insect poems. If Read More …
I have a new poem, “Benelux Redux” and its accompanying lino print up at The Good Men Project.
I have a new poem, “AC 749 Fly” and its accompanying lino print up in Issue 5.2 of Star 82 Review. I think this marks the publishing debut of one of my lino prints. And there are more to come! Keep an eye out for more poem+print combos in the coming months at The Good Read More …