Matt Donovan

Matt Donovan (author page at Amazon) is the author of Vellum (Mariner, 2007), which won the 2008 Levis Reading Prize. He has received a 2011 Rome Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Pushcart Prize, the
recipient of an NEA literature fellowship and a 2010 Whiting
Award. His poems have been published in Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The American Poetry Review, The Threepenny Review, and elsewhere. He teaches at the College of Santa Fe, where he directs the creative writing department. (updated 4/2011)

AGNI has published the following work by Matt Donovan:

•Bessie Smith’s Last Recorded Song
•Bullied Into Thoughts About the Body & Desire at the Colorado State Fair
•Charlie Chaplin Dug Up & Ransomed: A Prayer
•Elegy with Mistakes All through It
•Fumbling with a Field Guide on the Back Arroyo Trail
•How Graceland’s Decorator Landed the Gig
•Monkey Mind: A Meditative Path to Perfection
•Patio Lull with House Guest and View
•“Perhaps We Are What We Want to Remember”
•Rapture & the Big Bam
•Saint Catherine in an O: A Song About Knives
•The Scabbard of Limbs Means Flesh
•Second Pilgrimage, Rodeo Nites
•Thumb Trick
•Two Songs About the Work of Hands
•Van Gogh's First Sunday Sermon