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I have three poems in the new issue (#5) of Ganymede: "La Ley del Deseo," "Wrestlers Finished," and "Orange Colored Sky."  Click here to order a copy and you can see a sample page of where my section begins here.

"Orange Colored Sky" is my homage to Wonder Woman and was the poem turned into a limited edition broadside back in June for the Center Broadsides Reading Series; it is part of my Skin Shift manuscript.

"La Ley del Deseo" and "Wrestlers Finished" are both included in The Erotic...

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Also, if you haven't done so already, please update your bookmarks and links with the new address for my blog: http://matthewhittinger.com/m/

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I'll be reading at the inSPIREd launch party Thursday, September 10th, 7:00pm at the Nightingale Lounge here in NYC.  The party will celebrate the release of the new chapbook series from Spire, the inSPIREd Poetry Series, and will feature readings by some of their new authors including JoAnn Balingit, Alice Pettway and more TBA.

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I missed this review Grady Harp did of the December 2008 MiPOesias back in July:

Anytime readers get the opportunity to read the sophisticated and highly polished poetry of Matthew Hittinger is a delight. In this series of publications devoted to new poetry and articles analyzing and commenting on poetry with accompanying interviews with the poets themselves published by the very talented Didi Menendez, this issue is a particularly fine one.

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Gracing the cover of this edition is the model...

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Just found out The Erotic Postulate was a semi-finalist for the 2009 Akron Poetry Prize.

Congrats to Oliver de la Paz for his winning manuscript Requiem for the Orchard!  You can read some of Oliver's work in the first issue of the new journal The Collagist.

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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 menus!

2. Individual pages for my chapbooks, including cover art, excerpts, reviews, purchasing info and other goodies.

3. Updated content, including many of the poems published in journals this past year, some i...

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