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About
Matthew Dickman is the author of Husbandry, Wonderland, Mayakovsky’s Revolver, and All-American Poem, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize. His other honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Sarton Award for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a father, teacher, and freelance creative living in Portland, Oregon.
Poetry Collections
All-American Poem
"These poems swing with verve and luminosity" - Dorianne Laux
"Bursting with knowledge and love" - Marie Howe
Winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery award and the Sarton Award from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Mayakovsky's Revolver
"Reading Matthew Dickman is not unlike waiting for a bus with a smart, beguiling friend" -Terrance Hayes
"A book of real immediacy, the kind that re-enacts modern life with all its joys and sorrows.”-NPR
“His poems...strike at the soul”-Vanity Fair
Wonderland
"Dickman's poems are deft and sparkling and never cease to tear into you"- Carrie Browstein
“Tender and troubling, dark and glowing."-San Francisco Chronicle
"Matthew Dickman engages the traces of his own living past in poems that “light both heart
and mind”- New York Times
Husbandry
"By turns tender, heartbroken, enraptured, delighted, angry, melancholy-- all the turns of human family life"- McSweeny's
"The poems in [Husbandry] portray parenting in a beautiful and heartbreaking light" - Alta
"Dickman delivers us into the squelching heart-lift and heartbreak of parenthood" - Boston Globe
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