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
Work With Matthew
You wrote some poems.
Maybe you wrote a whole book.
Let's talk about them.
Matthew Dickman is a poet, teacher, father, End-of-Life volunteer, and person living in Portland, Oregon.
Matthew Dickman 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.
