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Poem in Queer Nature Anthology

My poem “Grafted” from The Erotic Postulate appears in the new blockbuster anthology Queer Nature edited by Michael Walsh and published by Autumn House Press. Out today!

Poem in Marilyn Monroe Anthology

My poem “I Am Not a Myth” from The Masque of Marilyn appears in the new anthology I Wanna Be Loved by You: Poems on Marilyn Monroe edited by Susana H. Case & Margo Taft Stever, and published by Milk & Cake Press.

2021 Xmas Card Print

Santa Monkey’s wishing everybody a Monkey Xmas and a Bananas New Year!

New Villanelle at Limp Wrist

Issue 4 of Limp Wrist is dedicated to one of my favorite forms, the villanelle. Thanks to Dustin Brookshire and Beth Gylys for including my villanelle “Manhattins” – the title’s a portmanteau of Manhattan and Matins.

New poem in Impossible Archetype

I have a new poem “Arc-en-ciel” in Issue 10 of Impossible Archetype. Many thanks to Mark Ward for including it.

Download a PDF of the issue here, and check out the list of contributors below.

Three New Poems at iARTistas

I have three new poems, “Herald of Herald Square,” “Adirondack Lemniscate,” and “Crumbs,” in the new iARTistas, a special “Invention” issue curated by Charles Jensen. Many thanks to Charlie and Didi for giving them a good home.

New Yorkers

Our friend, the artist Sally Davies, has a new book out, New Yorkers. She photographed New Yorkers in their homes, a project she wrapped right before the pandemic hit. For so many of us cooped up in our homes for over a year now, it’s a fascinating look inside the homes of others. Here’s the photo she included of us with some of the art we’ve collected, some of my favorite toys, and some of the animal characters (Monkey, Nicholas) that our close friends have come to know and love:

Matthew (l) and Michael (r) at home in Astoria, NY. Sally Davies, 2020.

Here’s the book trailer, Michael’s review at StreetPhotography.com and his review at F-Stop Magazine, and a review (with lots of photos from the book!) in The Guardian. If you’re interested in knowing more about Sally and her work, here’s an interview from Street Photography Magazine.

QUEENSBOUND 2021

Excited to have a poem, “[G]olden Circe Sips Her Coffee”, included in the 2021 edition of the QUEENSBOUND collaborative audio project, curated by the wonderful KC Trommer. It corresponds to my subway stop, 30th Avenue in Astoria on the N/W line and you can hear me read it on SoundCloud. It’s a diverse and eclectic playlist of poets!

From the press release:

QUEENSBOUND 2021! In honor of #NationalPoetryMonth, the audio poetry project QUEENSBOUND is pleased to release our 2021 edition.

QUEENSBOUND welcomes new contributors to the project: Philip F. Clark, Noelle de la Paz, Matthew Hittinger, Marcia B. Loughran, Jimena Lucero, Yasmin Majeed, Nadia Misir, Shams A. Momin, Richard Jeffrey Newman, Nikay Paredes, Bino A. Realuyo, and Spencer Reece.

QUEENSBOUND 2021 has expanded to include the work of 44 contributors in total, drawing from Queens’ many diverse communities and featuring poems from every corner of the borough.

The 2021 edition celebrates and reflects on Queens during the pandemic, reaching the beaches of the Rockaways, the coffee shops of Astoria, the quiet skies above JFK, and the streets of Jackson Heights as they fill again with language and with carts piled with mango slices in Ziplocks.

See the map and the station stop to which each poem corresponds by visiting QUEENSBOUND.com.

Four new poems at DIAGRAM

Some newly published explorations of words and graphics, text and image interplay at DIAGRAM.

2020 Xmas Card Print

We have a lot of cacti in my home.