Line tamer.
I have a new villanelle, “Beau Buck at Dusk” up in the new issue of Mead: The Magazine of Literature & Libations. Thanks to Paul Lisicky for selecting it and giving my psychic buck room to strut. * I’m giving away three signed copies of The Erotic Postulate for National Poetry Month over at GoodReads. Read More …
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 …
If you’re interested in following my updates or connecting with me on some of the social networking sites, here are the links: Facebook Fanpage GoodReads Twitter Also, if you haven’t done so already, please update your bookmarks and links with the new address for my blog: https://matthewhittinger.com/m/
A conversation started on GoodReads in response to my line “Remind me to destroy my fragments folder before I die” when I was commenting on Elizabeth Bishop’s Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box, the volume of fragments and unpublished poems Alice Quinn put together. It’s funny, some would argue that if a writer really didn’t want Read More …
With the pending publication of Pear Slip and its listing on Amazon and Barnes & Noble, my GoodReads user profile has been converted to an author profile. I’ll be posting upcoming events there, including a book release party in December and a book signing at the AWP conference in early 2008. Check it out: Matthew Hittinger.
So I joined yet another social site. I think this one is forgivable as it focuses solely on books and gives me a better space to organize my library, plus many of my grad school friends from Michigan are on it, so it’s been a nice way to reconnect with that former community of writers. Read More …