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Harlo and I have been busy this month making improvements to the site. Even though we still have some content to add, some kinks to workout, and are in the process of migrating my blog over, we decided to push many of the new pages live today for your enjoyment. What’s new: 1. Drop down Read More …
My site is about to go through a major re-design this week. Stay tuned for an announcement revealing the new matthewhittinger.com!
I had a lovely time chatting with Joe Milford Saturday night about my work. He’s a sensitive and careful close-reader and the 90 minutes flew by; I felt like we could have talked for another 90 minutes and still not covered all there is to cover. If you missed the show, it is now archived Read More …
I have a long poem sequence, “Merry-Go-Tats: A Bestiary, A Fable” in the new Dusie, the mega Issue #8 (vol. 2 no. 4) (Click on “download ebook” to the right; the sequence begins on page 59). UPDATE: You can read Dusie 8 on their site now. Click HERE. The sequence is the middle section in Read More …
Just a reminder: I’ll be on The Joe Milford Poetry Show this coming Saturday, August 1st. Please note the new time: 7:00-8:30 PM (EST). The show is broadcast on the web, so you can listen live from anywhere in the world, and if you miss it, you can find it in the archives.
“Aunt Eloe Schools the Scarecrow,” “Substitutions” and “Two Men on a Bed” are all up in Issue 3 of Ouroboros Review. Check it out HERE. Here’s a preview: Open publication “Aunt Eloe Schools the Scarecrow” and “Substitutions” are from my Skin Shift manuscript and continue my exploration of metamorphosis and transformation in all its many Read More …
Between send-off parties and birthday parties, trips to the park and the Bronx Zoo this weekend, I had the pleasure of reading and commenting on week three’s Project Verse entries as the guest judge. Now that all the judges’ comments are in you can see the results of the top two and bottom two, who Read More …
I’m the guest judge this week for Project Verse! In week three the remaining contestants have a simile vs. metaphor assignment to complete: two metaphors in a poem of 60 lines or less. Let’s see how they do! Their poems are due Friday morning by 10 and I’ll be reading them this weekend. Comments from Read More …
I found out on Friday that my second manuscript, Skin Shift, was a finalist in this year’s Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize. It was a finalist last year for the New Issues Press Poetry Prize. If it keeps this track record up it will soon match my first manuscript The Erotic Postulate in number of Read More …
I have two poems–“Dog Barking at Moon” and “Rowers“–in the Summer 2009 Issue (Issue #11) of The Smoking Poet. “Dog Barking at Moon” references Joan Miro’s 1926 oil on canvas painting of the same name and is an oldie rehabilitated in the past year and re-included in the newly structured third section of my manuscript Read More …