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Matthew Thorburn is an American
"Witter Bynner Poetry Reading", ''Library of Congress''
"Author's website"
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Matthew Thorburn is an American poet
A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...
. He is the author of three books of poems, ''Subject to Change'' (New Issues, 2004), ''Every Possible Blue'' (CW Books, 2012) and ''This Time Tomorrow'' (Waywiser Press, forthcoming 2013), and a chapbook, ''Disappears in the Rain'' (Parlor City, 2009).
Life
Thorburn is a native of Michigan. He graduated from theUniversity of Michigan
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, and The New School
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with an MFA. He lives in New York City.
He was one of the founders of ''Good Foot'' magazine, co-editing the journal from 2000 to 2004.
His poems have appeared in ''Poetry'', ''The Paris Review'', ''Prairie Schooner'', ''Poetry Northwest'', and ''The American Poetry Review'', among other journals. He also regularly contributes book reviews to ''Pleiades''.
Awards
* Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize * Belfast Poetry Festival’s Festivo Prize * 2008 Walter E. Dakin Fellowship at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference * Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts * 2008Witter Bynner Fellowship
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from the Library of Congress.
* 2009 BRIO
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Fellowship from the Bronx Council on the Arts
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Works
* * * * * * * * ''String,'' Louisiana State University Press, 2023.References
External links
"Witter Bynner Poetry Reading", ''Library of Congress''
"Author's website"
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