Poetry. Honest and vulnerable, the speaker in SUDDEN DOG ardently engages the self as drunken romantic, or even as domesticated animal in the loud realm of the real. We follow Matthew Pennock because he convinces us of his singular and lyrical voice, because he shows us how to be reckless yet stoic, dignified yet sardonic, quick to joke yet on the verge of tears.

Author City: NEW YORK, NY USA

Matthew Pennock is a graduate of the Undergraduate Poetry writing program at the University of Virginia and received his MFA from Columbia University. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in such literary journals as Western Humanities Review, LIT, DENVER QUARTERLY, New York Quarterly, Love Among the Ruins, Guernica: A Journal of Art and Politics, and American Literary Review, among others. He lives in Manhattan and teaches at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and works at Yeshiva University.