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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 …
“This Is Not About Pears” from Pear Slip is featured on Verse Daily today!
I have a new poem, “It’s It’s” in OCHO #24: The Twitter Edition: Open publication – Free publishing – More twitter
“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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
I am pleased to announce the release of my new chapbook Narcissus Resists. In keeping with the spirit of the sequence, the chapbook is available both online and in print. Head on over to www.resistthis.com where you can order a copy through Amazon or CreateSpace, read the online interactive version, and even listen to audio of me reading it. Special Read More …
I have two poems–“Bufeo Colorado” and “Two Black Swans”–in OCHO #22, a special edition edited by Miguel Murphy called “Dear America, Don’t Be My Valentine” which came about as a reaction and response to California’s passing of Prop 8 last fall. You can read it HERE (definitely check out Miguel’s preface before you dive in) Read More …