David E. Matthews
David E. Matthews lives in New England. He is saddened by the direction of events, but more perplexed that things are not worse than, or better than, they actually are, if what people believe is true. He has become suspicious - not to say paranoid - of people who seem positive of what is real, and true. The reverberations and resonances of literature is all that sustains him.
I like myself after, free for just that moment
of the surly bonds of corporeality,
of no touch, no sight, no sound, no scent, no taste,
no mind,
with her prowed breasts
with her hands down, like an irish dancer
she scurried slowly across
Recent Articles:
A Memorandum on Mortality
by Chris Cooper
Wents, hads, givens an OPS to sirens (Open Poem Search)
by Darryl / Dadou / Baron Wawa
Bloodstained Cigarette
by Carrie Lynn Hawthorne
"Brain cleaning" and "All knickety-knack yakking"
by Linda K. Miller
Unlikely Saints, October 2022
with Christine Kwon, Sean F. Munro, Jessica Kinnison, and Hank Lazer
"Conscientious Objector," "Empathy and Skepticism," and "Smolder"
by Mukund Gnanadesikan
"An Erasure of Leigh Chadwick's Poem 'Utah Is a Documentary'" and "An Erasure of Leigh Chadwick's Poem 'The Last Poet Writes the Last Poem Before the World Ends'"
by Leigh Chadwick
Stalked
by Gary Beck
At the Doll Wing of the State Psychiatric Hospital
by Kim Peter Kovac
"What Answer Will You Furnish, Poet?," "The Hunger," and "The Darkness"
by Sujata Sahani, translated by Pitambar Naik
The Angel in the Wall
by Mark Russo
Three American Geegaws
by Clay Thistleton
"Trip microscope Materiality," "First Unendurable Papercut of the Season," and "Adage Abusing, [At Least] a Wounded Nerve"
by Joshua Martin
Meltdown
by Ethan Goffman
Solution
by LC Gutierrez
"100 Ways to Splice, Dice and Slice (Spend) One Hundred Classroom (Personal) Dollars" and "when grammar is nothing more than rules of destruction"
by Jen Schneider
"A City Shall Rise" and "Reaching for the Moon"
by Joe Bisicchia
"Random Violence" and "The Dead Who Go to Market"
by Dennis Formento
Crazy
by Kurt Newton
"Freedom Defined," "Frank Rizzo Burns in Hell, Oct 30, 2020," and "Blunt-Force Commute"
by C.L. Liedekev
Salt Water
by Linda McMullen
Celebrating "Handling Filth: Simple Sabotage Field Manual"
with Jared Schickling, Dylan Krieger, Té V. Smith, and Erik Bosse
Easter
by Brian Stephen Ellis
'householes,' 'marine's young daughter,' and 'no one teaches girls'
by Natalie Parker-Lawrence
"The Wonder Years," "Guidance Counselor," and "Confirmation Day"
by Kyle Hemmings
sapphic pindaric # 25862
by David E. Matthews
"Missing One Beat," "Peccadillos," and "A Disappearance"
by Laura Winter
Becoming criminal
by Roy Duffield
Mylar Art, October 2022
by Mollie Thonneson
Your Teaching Assistant, Rumpelstiltskin
by Kirkley Silverman-Mehndiratta
Trial and Error
by Ed Ahern
"Better Angels," "By Now, Of Course" and "Before an Empire Falls"
by Wendy Taylor Carlisle
On Irina Mashinski's "The Naked World: A Tale with Verse"
by Mary Jane White