Sharon Olds reads with the Dickman twins this Thursday. Sharon Olds is the author of nine books of poetry including The Dead & the Living, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her most recent book is One Secret Thing. Matthew Dickman is the author of All American Poem, which won the 2008 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize [...]
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Poetry by Matthew Dickman
February 23, 2010 – 11:32 am
FOUR SWITCHES 1. VENT I can feel the Christ inside me with his side cut open so he can breathe like a fish like someone who has been choking on a small bone, maybe a tiny part of another animal’s vertebrae, when a friend grabs him from behind, forces him to lunge, the bone flying [...]
Double Your Pleasure
April 7, 2009 – 8:45 am
This week’s New Yorker features an article on the Dickman brothers, Matthew and Michael. The Portland, Oregon natives are twin poets with different styles that draw from the same shared experience. Plus, they’re cute. (Sorry, I couldn’t resist.) We were lucky enough to have Matthew contribute to Issue No. 2 and do a special Dossier [...]
