Poetry. Said judge Tony Hoagland of Matthew Dickman's ALL AMERICAN POEM, winner of the APR/Honnickman First Book Prize: "Matthew Dickman's all-American poems are the epitome of the pleasure principle; as clever as they are, they refuse to have ulterior intellectual pretensions; really, I think, they are spiritual in character—free and easy and unself-conscious, lusty, full of sensuous aspiration.... We turn loose such poets into our culture so that they can provoke the rest of us into saying everything on our minds."

Author City: PORTLAND, OR USA

Matthew Dickman grew up in Portland, Oregon with his twin brother Michael. His first book, ALL AMERICAN POEM, won numerous prizes including the APR/Honickman First Book Prize, Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and Oregon Book Award. He has earned fellowships from The Michener Center for Writers, The Vermont Studio Center, and The Fine Arts Work Center. His poems have appeared in Tin House, McSweeney's, Ploughshares, and The New Yorker, among others. W.W. Norton & Co. will publish his second book in 2012. Matthew lives in Portland where he writes and works as an editor at Tin House.

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