Matt Thomas is a smallholder farmer, engineer, and Pushcart nominated poet.
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Recent Poetry Publications
- Memoir Mixtapes, November, 2024: White TR-7
- Catalogue, Volume Two, Fall, 2024: The Climate Conversation
- The Milk House, October 2024: Parable of the Sower, Local, Ferret Man
- Ponder Review, Volume 8, Issue 2, Fall, 2024: While on Leave
- The Temz Review, September, 2024: Drought, Drunk and Disorderly
- The Expressionist Magazine, September, 2024: Summer Work
- Susurrus Magazine, Summer, 2024: Consider the Day, Bees
- Reformed Journal, July, 2024: Moriah
- Pinhole Poetry, July, 2024: King of the Road
- Halfway Down the Stairs, Summer, 2024: The Story of Our Labor
- the engine (idling, Spring 2024: Tasseography, A Romantic Poem
- Brief Wilderness, Summer, 2024: Towel
- Bardball, June, 2024: Inside Baseball
- Dreich Magazine Season 9, Summer, 2024: The Recruit, Urinal Poem, Chevy Luv, Birthday Poem
- Avalon Literary Review, Winter 2024: September First
- Copihue Poetry, Issue #3, Spring 2024: Birddogs
- Hiram Review, Summer 2024, My Father Paints Us a New Car
- Stick Figure Poetry Quarterly, Winter 2024: Tangibles
- Bear Paw Arts Journal, Fall 2023: Nude Descending A Staircase
- The Wild Word, November 2023, Cotan
- Cleaver Magazine, December 2023, Anniversary Poem II
- Dunes Review, Summer 2023: For Albert Hawkins Whom The State Has Declared A Hoarder, Open Carry
- Grand Little Things, September, 2023: Lover
- Galway Review, Summer 2023: House Carpenter, Naturalization, Two Snows
- Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Summer 2023: Juice
- Bluepepper, June 2023: Goldfinch
- EKL Review, Issue II: When You Stretch…I
- Poetry Life And Times, August, 2023: I Can’t Stop Imagining Your Death, What/Nothing, When You Stretch…II, Self-Harm at the Outlet Mall
- The Insurgence, September 8, 2023: For the Lady Who Sits in Rosslyn Plaza Across from McDonalds
- The Insurgence, September 4, 2023: Crown City
- Plato’s Caves, August 2023: This Poem is Not About Killing a Rooster
- Backwards Trajectory, Summer 2023: Every Morning Song
- Cleaver Magazine, Summer 2022: Pop Song
- River Heron Review (Issue 5.2, 2022): Banyan, Fishing the Conemaugh
- Hampden-Sydney Review, Winter 2022: Eagle Head
- Killing the Buddha, January 2022: Baptism
- Triggerfish Critical Review, #26, Summer 2021: Breaking Up with Hemingway
- Spellbinder Magazine, Winter 2021: Atlas
- Tiny Seed Literary Journal, November 2020: Fire Break
- Galway Review, GR-9, 2021: 3 Poems
- The Wild Word, Issue #57, 2021: Yield
- Galway Review, June 2021: Worm Lore
- Spellbinder Magazine, Summer 2021: All These Rivers
- Triggerfish Critical Review, #26, Summer 2021: Critical Review: Edward Harkness’s ‘Brown Eyes
Recent Readings & Press
StoryScape Magazine, September, 2024
Reformed Journal Podcast, August 2024
Best of the Net Nomination (2024)
Interview, Pinhole Poetry, July, 2024
Review of Disappearing by the Math, Kusi Okamura in The Wild Word
Interview, Northern Virginia Daily, 4/18/24
Pushcart Prize Nomination (2023)
Social Media
Instagram @mattthomaspoetry
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What I’m Reading
- There is Happiness, Brad Watson
- Miracle Boy, Pinkney Benedict
- Blackouts, Justin Torres
- An Immense World, Ed Yong
What I’m Watching
- All of us Strangers, Andrew Haigh
- Shogun, Rachel Kondo/Justin Marks
- Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos
- Perfect Days, Wim Wenders