WATERCOLOR
The rain splashed through the garden
like a diagnosis.
The clouds darkened the sky
and everything green or yellow or pink turned
even more green and yellow and pink.
Late Spring Catolog
Coming Summer 2027
Books by Matthew Dickman
All-American Poem
Winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery award and the Sarton Award from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
"Bursting with knowledge and love" - Marie Howe, Pulitzer Prize Winner
Mayakovsky's Revolver
"A book of real immediacy, the kind that re-enacts modern life with all its joys and sorrows.”-NPR
“His poems...strike at the soul”-Vanity Fair
Wonderland
"Dickman's poems are deft and sparkling and never cease to tear into you"- Carrie Browstein
"Matthew Dickman engages the traces of his own living past in poems that “light both heart
and mind”- New York Times
Husbandry
"By turns tender, heartbroken, enraptured, delighted, angry, melancholy-- all the turns of human family life"- McSweeny's
"Dickman delivers us into the squelching heart-lift and heartbreak of parenthood" - Boston Globe
An Invitation to write:
The Workbooks
I've found that writing comes easiest when someone else invites me to write. When a mentor, friend, or poem I read nudges or prompts me. I've gathered the most meaningful prompts from my own writing life to share with you. Let's write a poem!
Work With Matthew
You wrote some poems.
Maybe you wrote a whole book.
Let's talk about them.
Manuscript
Consultation
I believe no book is written alone. Drawing from 15 years of working with poets as an editor and consultant, I offer thoughtful, collaborative manuscript consultations designed to help writers see their work more clearly and shape the book they’re trying to make.
Poetry
Classes
These poetry studios are a place to come together, support one another's creativity, and explore what it means to be a writer.
Speaking &
Readings
I love sharing my work and learning from others' work. My talks and readings are more conversational than lecture-like and centered on human connection.
Poetry
Mentorship
Poetry is made in conversation—with our lives, our reading, and with other writers. My mentorships offer an ongoing space to talk honestly about your work, your creative practice, and where you want your writing to go, with thoughtful feedback and guidance along the way.
Events
October
10.7.26
The Poetry Review Autumn Launch
Join me and fellow poets Fiona Benson, Grace Nichols, and Jane Yeh on Wednesday, October 7th, from 7:00-9:00 PM at The Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton Street, London, WC2H 9BX, UK, for a grand reading and celebration of The Poetry Review's new issue!
Matthew Dickman is a poet, teacher, father, End-of-Life volunteer, and person living in Portland, Oregon.
He is the author of Husbandry, Wonderland, Mayakovsky’s Revolver, and All-American Poem, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize. His other honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Sarton Award for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
