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Review of December 2008 MiPOesias by Grady Harp

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.

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

Semi-finalist for the 2009 Akron Poetry Prize

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.

Welcome to the revamped matthewhittinger.com!

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...