Matthew Dickman

Matthew Dickman

Senior Fellow at the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters

Matthew Dickman is the author of All-American Poem (American Poetry Review/ Copper Canyon Press, 2008), Mayakovsky’s Revolver (WW Norton & Co, 2012), Wish You Were Here (Spork Press, 2013) and has co-written along with his brother 50 American Plays (Copper Canyon Press, 2012) The recipient of The Honickman First Book Prize, The May Sarton Award from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Kate Tufts Award from Claremont College, the 2009 Oregon Book Award, his poems have appeared in the London Review of Books, McSweeny’s, Esquire, Poetry London, The New York Times Style Magazine, The Believer and The New Yorker among many others. He is lives and works in Portland, Oregon where he is the poetry editor for Tin House Magazine.

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