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MATTHEW BURNS / POETRY

Portfolio

a sampling of writings, readings &c
SELECTED POETRY
"December" Cleaver Magazine
"Ghosts" & "The Border" Posit (Pushcart Nominee)
"Five Practical Posthumous Uses for Human Bones" RHINO
​"Rhubarb" North American Review (James Hearst Poetry
           Prize winning poem)
"The Last Sunset in Barrow, Alaska" Sweet Tree Review
​"Calving" anderbo
"To my Wife, on the Train"; "John Prine"; "The Dead Birds
          Found in Jim’s Ceiling"
Cathexis Northwest
"When Harvesting the Hog" Third Wednesday Magazine
"'We Were Not Warned Not to Laugh'" & "The Brutality of
          the Wind"
Hudson Valley Writers Guild

ESSAYS
Poets on Craft, Cultural Daily
"Reading, Writing, and Teaching the Dead" Rock & Sling
"We Were Here: Marks, Monikers, and the Boxcar Art
          Tradition" Folk Art Magazine
Graffiti Issue of Rhizomes: Culture Studies in Emerging
          Knowledge, Issue 25 (co-editor)

NON-FICTION
"The Coal Spur Kid" Ragazine

SELECTED READINGS / VISITING LECTURES
Woodstock Poetry Society Reading (with Alison Woods) /
          2022
The Community Library, Cobleskill; Poetry Craft &
          Publication Workshops / 2022

Schenectady Trading Company "Poetry on the Patio" /
          2021 (featured)
Albany Public Library Earth Day Poetry Celebration /
          2021 (featured)
Union College, Book Launch (with Sarah Giragosian) / 2021
Union College, NY Poetry Month celebration / 2019
          (featured)
Albany Poets: Poetry in Science / 2018 (group)
North American Review Conference, IA / 2016 (solo
          featured)
"We Are Here: Messages from the Living: Graffiti & Zombie Narratives" NY6 ThinkTank Humans vs. Zombies @ Union
          College / 2015 
Whitworth University, Spokane, WA / 2013 (solo featured)
Heritage University, Yakima, WA / 2012 (solo featured)
Writing on the Wall Lecture & Street Walk, St. Francis
          College, NY / 2010
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