Poetry. Griffin Poetry Prize finalist Matthew Rohrer illuminates the modern plight: trying to figure out how to be a thoughtful citizen, parent, and person as the landscape of terror and history worms its way into our everyday existence. Unnervingly humorous, casual, and tender, Rohrer's poems help us investigate our lives as he investigates his—openly and with a generous presence.
Author City: BROOKLYN, NY USA
Matthew Rohrer is the author of A Hummock in the Malookas (which won the 1994 National Poetry Series Open Competition), SATELLITE, A GREEN LIGHT (shortlisted for the 2005 Griffin International Poetry Prize), RISE UP, A PLATE OF CHICKEN, and DESTROYER AND PRESERVER. With Joshua Beckman he wrote NICE HAT. THANKS. and recorded the audio CD ADVENTURES WHILE PREACHING THE GOSPEL OF BEAUTY. He's appeared on NPR's All Things Considered and The Next Big Thing, has been awarded the Avery Hopwood Prize for poetry and a Pushcart Prize, and has been widely anthologized. A chapbook-length action/adventure poem They All Seemed Asleep was published by Octopus Books in 2008. He teaches in the creative writing program at NYU and lives in Brooklyn.
Reviews and Other Links
interview by Mark Asch @ The L Magazine
Nate Pritts @ Coldfront
Nick Sturm @ Ron Slate's On the Seawall
Joshua Diamond @ Sycamore Review
Ken Tucker's Poetry You Need to Read @ Entertainment Weekly
Rachel Zucker's Favorite Poetry Books @ 32 Poems
Publishers Weekly
Michael Flatt @ NewPages
Evan Hansen @ TheThe Poetry Blog
interview by Andrew James Weatherhead @ HTMLGIANT
Amanda Perez @ Front Porch Journal
Virginia Konchan @ The Rumpus
Richard Silberg @ Poetry Flash