David E. Matthews

David E. Matthews lives now in his home state of Texas, in the Hill Country. For 20 years, Unlikely Stories has published his barbaric yawp. A fact that stupefies him with pleasure & gratitude.

New Orleans Poetry Festival Reading

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trauma # 24553

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'I paused in my car at a crosswalk'

with her prowed breasts
with her hands down, like an irish dancer
she scurried slowly across

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"ich denke dein," "Sedipoesia," and "Impetapoesia"

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Metapoesia

Metapoesia by David Matthews requires image support

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trauma # 23888

trauma # 23888 by David Matthews requires image support

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Recent Articles:

'We depart toward light, but June,' 'This work isn’t just between you & me anymore...,' and 'I write your name' by Mark DuCharme

Uncles by Robert Knox

Alas Poor Boomer by Dawn Corrigan

The REAL Ghosts of Seattle Past by David Fewster

Nine Visual Poems, January 2020 by Amanda J. Forrester

The Message and the Messenger by Andrew Paul Grell

"Kudzu" and "Retreat" by Marguerite Guzman Bouvard

"The Morning After" and "Postscript" by Gary Duehr

"Confusion" and "Alibi" by Ken W. Simpson

Party of One by Debra Leigh Scott

"Duck for Two" and "The Same Man" by John Grey

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"Tenant," "The Base from Which I Have Grown," and "A Moment Before the Second Big Bang" by P.H. Higgins

Identity by Robert A. Schaefer, Jr.

The Scab Beggar by Zoltán Komor

Just doing my job by Christine King

Seven by Michael Harold

"I met her a day after the car wreck" and "Memoirs" by Michael Harold

Yehy Vaya by Serge Bulat

Signs by Andrena Zawinski

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"becoming" and "Nazis en el Casa Blanca" by Mark A. Fisher

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Buñuel and Emmanuelle by Casey Bush

geographies: "7th Arrondissement, Paris," "Tumbes, Peru" and "Penonome" by Mark Young

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Losing Petals Quickly by KJ Hannah Greenberg

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The Last Piano by Gary Beck

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"Yugenics" and "Jabberwonky" by Bill Yarrow

"Reservations," "The Bombing of Interstate 64," and "Customs" by Ken Poyner

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