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The Joe Milford Poetry Show, 8/1/2009
Mark your calendars…I’m scheduled to be interviewed and read my work on The Joe Milford Poetry Show August 1st from 5-6:30pm. 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. More details and reminders to Read More …
Move over Project Runway…here comes Project Verse!
For those of you who love Project Runway, Dustin Brookshire of Limp Wrist Magazine and the blog I Was Born Doing Reference Work In Sin brings you Project Verse. What is Project Verse? Project Verse is the “Project Runway” of the poetry world, a free 10-week competition where 10 poets will complete a weekly assignment Read More …
New poem in OCHO #24: The Twitter Edition
I have a new poem, “It’s It’s” in OCHO #24: The Twitter Edition: Open publication – Free publishing – More twitter
Reading at the Center for Book Arts, June 3rd
I’ll be reading with Patricia Smith on Wednesday, June 3rd at 6:30 at the Center for Book Arts as part of their Broadsides Reading Series as organized by Sharon Dolin. Limited edition broadsides of one of my poems will be available for purchase that evening. The Center for Book Arts is located at 28 West Read More …
Poem in Hobble Creek Review
“In the Shadow City…” is included in the new issue (Issue 2, Volume 3) of Hobble Creek Review. It’s a poem from my Impossible Gotham project. There are some great poets in this issue: Collin Kelly, Joe Milfold, Montgomery Maxton, Nanette Rayman Rivera and many others. Kudos to Justin Evans for putting such a fine issue together.
Narcissus Resists and Pink Narcissus
Around the time Narcissus Resists was released poet Andrew Demcak wrote his five-part poem sequence Pink Narcissus in response to the 1971 James Bidgood film (which I also reference in Narcissus Resists). Andrew was kind enough to dedicate his poem to me in celebration of the release of Narcissus Resists (very sweet Andrew, thank you!). You can Read More …
Order your copy of Platos de Sal!
From the Seven Kitchens website: Platos de Sal: poetry by Matthew Hittinger. Number Two in the Editor’s Series from Seven Kitchens Press. Cover art by Lori Hayes. $7. 24 pages. ISBN: 978-0-9820372-6-3. Available March 31 — order yours now! How to order: To order chapbooks ($7 each plus $1 shipping for 1-2 copies or $2 Read More …
Three poems in the Spring 2009 Issue of Phoebe
I close out the Spring 2009 Issue of Phoebe with three geometry-inflected poems: “Triangulated,” “To Euclid On the Geometry of Behavior,” and “Triptych of Brooklyn Bridge in Marriott Room 556.” This one’s solely a print journal, so if you want to read them, you’ll need to get yourself a copy, which you should do because Read More …
Cover preview for Platos de Sal
Head on over to Seven Kitchens Press where you can find a preview for the cover of my third chapbook, Platos de Sal, forthcoming this spring as Number Two in SKP’s Editor’s Series. The cover is a painting by my friend Lori Hayes; you can check out more of her work here.