Author: Matthew
2015 Over the Rainbow List
Stephen, Brent and I woke to the news this morning that all three of our books from Sibling Rivalry Press made the 2015 Over the Rainbow List for Poetry, which is compiled by the American Library Association’s GLBT Round Table. Nice news to receive while you’re on a book tour promoting the work! You can Read More …
New Poem in iARTistas
A poem from my Impossible Gotham manuscript, “1 January 200X,” appears in the new iARTistas (Issue 13 – January 2015).
Winter 2015 Readings & Events
I’ll be coming to California at the end of January/early February to do some events in San Francisco and Los Angeles with my SRP-mates Brent Calderwood and Stephen S. Mills. Here’s our current tour schedule: January 31st, 3-5pm PST. “Three Under 40: Calderwood, Hittinger, Mills at the San Francisco Public Library.” Hormel Room. (100 Larkin Read More …
The Erotic Postulate reviewed at Lambda Literary
The wonderful poet Tony Leuzzi (The Burning Door, Radiant Losses) has written an insightful review of The Erotic Postulate for Lambda Literary. Tony is clearly an ideal and well-read reader, picking up on the influences of people like Marianne Moore with the syllabic calculations, the reasons for the experimentation with punctuation, the philosophical bent to the Read More …
Favorite Reads of 2014
Not a “best books” list by far, just the annual list of books I enjoyed reading over the previous year. As always, I present these in alphabetical order by author. They are a mix of genres (poetry, prose, art, graphic novel), and a mish-mash of books recently published and books I either finally got around Read More …
New poem “There Were Turtles” in Memorious 23
Most of my writing friends concur that years in which we publish books are slower years for publishing in journals and magazines. Much of it has to do with a redirecting of energy into the galley proofing, party planning and reading and interview promoting that comes along with a new book. So with the release Read More …
Dreamsplaining at Queen Mob’s Teahouse
Reb Livingston tackles one of my recent dreams in her new feature at Queen Mob’s Teahouse. She’s an insightful dreamsplainer! Check it out. Here’s the premise for dreamsplaining in Reb’s own words: Bored with traditional profile pieces & interviews? Me too! Here I will introduce writers and artists via their psyches by sharing one of their Read More …
The Queer South
The fall’s been so busy with book promotion and our reading tour that I forgot to plug a new anthology from SRP called The Queer South: LGBTQ Writers on the American South edited by my good friend Douglas Ray. When Douglas first told me about the project back in 2013 when I was visiting his Read More …
M Dreams: Lyric Dream Project at Fogged Clarity
For the month of October, Ben Evans at Fogged Clarity has been featuring a different lyric dream each day. For Day 26 he features my “M Dreams” sequence–a stitching together of the various Marilyn Monroe dreams I’ve had over the years, featuring cameos by other early June Geminis such as Allen Ginsberg and Josephine Baker. Read More …