“I absolutely love this book.”
–David Yezzi
Matthew Buckley Smith’s first book of poems in twelve years is out now from Measure Press.
Matthew
makes a podcast
and writes stuff.
Sometimes people publish it.
His poems and stories have appeared in AGNI, American Life in Poetry, Beloit Poetry Journal, Best American Poetry, Cincinnati Review, Fairy Tale Review, The Nation, Ploughshares, Subtropics, and Threepenny Review.
His second book of poems, Midlife, was selected by David Yezzi for the 2021 Richard Wilbur Award.
Please buy it here.
His first book of poems, Dirge for an Imaginary World, was selected by Andrew Hudgins for the 2011 Able Muse Book Award.
Please buy it here.
Sometimes it’s online.
Here are some links to essays and reviews:
32 Poems, Why Poems Don't Make Sense
Able Muse Review, The Quality of Mercy: Review of A. M. Juster
Contemporary Poetry Review, Ahead was Silence: Review of Louise Glück
LA Review of Books, Chaos Ex Machina: Review of Joyelle McSweeney
Literary Matters, The Strange Heart: Review of Morri Creech
Literary Matters, About Suffering: Review of Morri Creech
Literary Matters, Conversation with JP Gritton
Literary Matters, Review of Hayes, Martin, and Trethewey
Literary Matters, Review of Ben Lerner
Literary Matters, Review of Spaar, Smith, and Shewmaker
Literary Matters, The Burning Sermon: Review of Christian Wiman
Partisan, All the Difference: Review of David Orr
Partisan, Review of 99 Poetry Collections
Smartish Pace, Review of Joshua Beckman
Subtropics, Interview with Ashley Sojin Kim
The Walrus, The Uneasy Friendship of Poets (all about poet/friend Ryan Wilson)
Here are some links to poems:
32 Poems, The Soft Black Stars
American Arts Quarterly, Doo-Wop
At Length, Ankou, Another Achilles & The Light of the Body
Blood Rag, Memo to a Celebrated Mediocrity,
Commonweal, By and By & Lullaby Before Birth
Equinox, Signs and Symptoms
Form in Formless Times, Youth
Harvard Review, An Organ of Extreme Perfection
Linebreak, The Dark Woods
Literary Matters, Object Permanence
The Nation, Stay-at-Home
New Verse Review, To Marilyn Manson
Poetry Daily, Creed for Atheists
Poetry Foundation, Undergrads
Rattle, Ars Ecphrastica
Rove, Birthright
Threepenny Review, Hail and Farewell
Verse Daily, For the Highway Medians
WORMS, Inaudible Elegy
Here is a link to a story:
BULL, The Empyrean
Here are some links to interviews, reviews, and other nonsense:
The Journal, Review by Ryan Wilson
Literary Matters, Review by Elijah Perseus Blumov
New Verse Review, Review by Zara Raab
Rattlecast, Interview with Timothy Green
On the Seawall, Interview with Jonathan Farmer
Spoon River Poetry Review, Review Essay by Brian Brodeur
Subtropics, Interview with Ashley Kim
His podcast SLEERICKETS
is full of poetry
and profanity.
So is the Secret Show
that only cool people know about.