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Matt Morton holds a BA from the University of Texas at Austin and an MFA from the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars. His poetry appears in AGNI, Gettysburg Review, Harvard Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Tin House Online, and elsewhere. His work has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. He serves as associate editor for 32 Poems and is a Robert B. Toulouse Doctoral Fellow in English at the University of North Texas. He lives in Dallas, TX. For more information, please visit mattmortonpoetry.com.

Books by Matt Morton

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Welcome Fall Book Bundlers! With this purchase you will receive a box with all titles from Boa's current fall season along with a few…

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Subscribe and save on all forthcoming Boa titles within the calendar year! At the start of each season (every 6 months), subscribers will receive…

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Gratitude to Old Teachers

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To Sound Like Yourself

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After-Images: Autobiographical Sketches

In After-Images: Autobiographical Sketches, renowned poet W.D. Snodgrass offers his frank and evocative essays on his life as a student, lover, son, husband and poet.…

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Holes the Crickets Have Eaten in Blankets

Available in limited quantity In this pamphlet, Bly addresses the "holes" we create around and in ourselves while carrying on with the routines of our…

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The Hiddenness of the World: Poems

"The title of Martin's book-La Dérobée du Monde-offers a clue, albeit an ambivalent one. I found his use of the word 'dérobée' virtually untranslatable,…

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