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Thunderstorms flooding the city. Air so heavy with humidity and pollution and rotting trash it’s hard to breathe. Showering multiple times a day to stay cool and get the film off your skin. Ah New York in the summertime. It’s around this time every year I start dreaming of Autumn and crisper days and getting Read More …
Take a storyboard tour through seven images central to the poems in Skin Shift over at Jeffery Berg’s blog jdbrecords. * The new issue of PoetsArtists is dedicated to interviews, and I decided to take a different approach to my answers. You can check out my section here and the whole issue here. My partner, Michael, Read More …
Happy birthday to my book Skin Shift, which is officially released today. You share a birthday with your daddy, and with Marilyn Monroe, amongst others. Last summer while in the midst of my Marilyn research, I discovered The Seven Year Itch premiered on her birthday, June 1st, 1955, during her year of self-imposed exile in New York Read More …
If you pre-ordered Skin Shift, Sibling Rivalry Press is shipping pre-orders early! Each day another reader writes to say it arrived in the mail. My little skin-shifter soldiers are marching! It is also now available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and SPD, and always through SRP (support small presses!), so choose your seller if you have yet to Read More …
Happy May Day! Today marks the 1-month countdown to the book launch. I’ve been doing interviews, written and live, in recent weeks and am in party-planner mode for the book launch on June 1st. One of the interviews culminated in a feature on the NY Daily News books blog “Page Views” which ran this past Read More …
Pre-Order Day has arrived! Here is the press release from SRP: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: NOW AVAILABLE for PRE-ORDER from SIBLING RIVALRY PRESS Matthew Hittinger’s Skin Shift “PURE HOT GLORY” Skin Shift by Matthew Hittinger Featuring Cover Art by Michael DiMotta $19.95; ISBN: 978-1937420-14-7 8 x 10 Perfect-Bound Paperback; 114 Pages Release Date: June 1, 2012 Now Available Read More …
Allow me to interrupt your normal poetry news to nerd out for a moment. FAQNP has just published a collaborative essay I wrote with my buddy Carter (B.C. Edwards) on two of my childhood idols, the twins He-Man and She-Ra. Hatched over brunch and then a string of emails and drafts, it even comes with Read More …
You can see my poem “[G]olden Circle Sips Her Coffee” (from my project Impossible Gotham) at the Queens Poets & Poetry Exhibit at Borough Hall. The fabulous Paolo Javier, our Queens Poet Laureate, curated the exhibit. Here are the poets and poems on display: Lorraine Schein (Sunnyside), “Dreambox” Norman Stock (Jackson Heights), “How to Become the Read More …
Three poems from my Impossible Gotham book project are in the April 2012 (Volume 25, Issue 1) edition of MiPOesias: “Columbus Square Is Now a Triangle,” “Whoooo? Arrrre? Youuuu?” and “Trash Day.” There’s even audio of me reading them. [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/41500584″ iframe=”true” /] [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/41500871″ iframe=”true” /] [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/41501206″ iframe=”true” /]
Here’s a list of places I’ll be popping up this month, starting with a reading in PA this Saturday: Muhlenberg College English Department Alumni Conference. Saturday, March 17th, 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM. 2400 Chew Street, Seegers Union, Allentown PA. Will be reading as part of a literary panel segment at 1:30 pm with former Read More …