New Interview at Rob McLennan’s Blog
I have a new interview “12 or 20 (second series) questions with Matthew Hittinger” up at Rob McLennan’s Blog. Enjoy!
Author: Matthew
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A week of printmaking at the FAWC
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 …
New Poem at The Good Men Project
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!
Text/Form Reading at The Center for Book Arts
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 …
New Poem and Print at The Good Men Project
I have a new poem, “Benelux Redux” and its accompanying lino print up at The Good Men Project.
New Poem and Print at Star 82 Review
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 …
New Poem in The American Poetry Journal
I have a new poem, “Bomb,” from my Impossible Gotham project in Issue 14 of The American Poetry Journal.
The Masque of Marilyn
It’s my birthday…and I’ll surprise release a book on it if I want to. Especially if that book’s about Marilyn Monroe, whose birthday it also is today. My Marilyn poems have been kicking around for years, but I’ve finally bundled them in one sheaf-sequence to go have a public life of their own. With the Read More …
Poem in Impossible Archetype
A poem from my Smite & Spoon project, “71 Irving Place” appears in the inaugural issue of Impossible Archetype, A Journal of LGBTQ+ Poetry edited by Mark Ward.
Remembering Derek Walcott
An unpublished poem from my archives on this sad day. Upon Reading Tiepolo’s Hound for Derek Walcott A pen trembled above a tea-stained page. A brush climbed couplets laid out in paint : Tahiti, St. Thomas, St. Lucia, a lineage hovered en plein air like ghosts or faint cloud wisps above the turning, turning sea. Read More …