Matthew Rohrer is the author of A Hummock in the Malookas, Satellite, A Green Light, Rise Up and A Plate of Chicken. With Joshua Beckman he wrote Nice Hat, Thanks and recorded the audio CD Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. Octopus Books published his action/adventure chapbook-length poem They All Seemed Asleep in 2008. His poems have been widely anthologized and have appeared […]
Matthew Rohrer
Matthew Rohrer: Poem for My Thirties
We interrupt this poem to read The Itsy Bitsy Spider five times in a row Sitting in Fraunces Tavern a nervous Joshua with Matthew’s proposal Indiana so nice we went there twice Then an ancestral vision on a silent night snow beating the little building They came to stand around me neither happy nor sad […]
Matthew Rohrer: Poem for Music’s Distractions
I wasn’t paying attention and ate all the leftover pork tenderloin Hours ago I fell asleep in the middle of my family’s weekend Through a crashing surf of sleep the baby is drenched And in my dreams I got down to the work I’d put off Noelle looked at me oddly it really shook me […]
Matthew Rohrer: Poem for Asthma
Hold on while I do a breathing exercise I am just paying attention to myself, or the universe is vast And the universe is imperfect, I stop what I’m doing and look right at it I say “Doc is this thing going to kill me?” He pronounces it “asmer”, a voice calls me from a […]