Matthew Little

Matthew Little (born July 23, 1991) is an American poet and writer.

Life
Little was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts to parents Lynda Little and Kenneth Rapoza. They split while he was in elementary school in 1999. As a child, Little never really cared for reading or writing; it wouldn't be until middle school where he discovered lyric writing. From there it developed, and one of his pursuits in life is to be a published author. After many unsuccessful tries in writing a novel, he discovered poetry after meeting his ex-boyfriend, whom wrote poems of his own. At the time, Little had almost no experience in reading or writing poetry until he was shown the works of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. He never had any proper training in the medium, and claims he taught himself how to write poems as well as other forms of writing.

He is the author of a chapbook, Hell in a Basket: A small collection of personal poems, which was published on August 24, 2013, independently through CreateSpace, an Amazon.com based self-publishing platform. Certain events that he has faced in his life have triggered most of the material he wrote in the collection. The poem "A Father to my Mother" was written about his childhood upbringing, the environment he was in, and what he dealt with having an alcoholic mother. Other poems, like "Beaches" and "True Hate" show his anger towards things others wouldn't find terrible. Most of what was written in the collection was written during dark times in the author's life.

Future works
Currently Little has been at work writing "The Last Web Chat" a short story/novella which he refers to as a "story". 

He also plans to release a new collection of poetry that will be much larger than Hell in a Basket sometime in the future, and plans on getting more serious with novel writing.

Publications

 * Hell in a Basket: A small collection of personal poems. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013.