Matthew Dickman is author of three full-length collections: Wonderland (W.W. Norton, 2018), Mayakovsky’s Revolver (W.W. Norton, 2012), and All American Poem (Copper Canyon Press, 2008), which won the 2008 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize in Poetry. He is also the author of two chapbooks, Amigos (Q Ave Press, 2007) and Something About a Black Scarf (Azul Press, 2008). He and his twin brother, the […]
Love.mp3
The congregation is sad. Their books of daily prayer look up into their sad faces from the long thin fingers of sadness because a man they loved, a man who lived two thousand years ago, died while his mother stood below him in a blue winter coat and trembled. I wanted to be […]
Lents_District.mp3
My brother floats like a balloon as we walk through the city, he’s in love and I have to pull his pant cuff to keep him near me. Near me is a streetlight turned green. Near me is a bus stop where a transvestite is sleeping. Near me is the corner on Sixth and […]
Amigos.mp3
Matthew Dickman talks about his writing routine.
Matthew Dickman offers some advice to young writers.