Matthew Dickman

Matthew Dickman (born August, 20th, 1975) is an American poet.

Life
Born in Portland, Oregon, he received a B.A. degree from the University of Oregon (2001), and has been the recipient of fellowships from The Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin, The Vermont Studio Center, and The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He is the author of two chapbooks, Amigos and Something about a Black Scarf.

He was a Visiting Writer at Reed College.

His work has appeared in Tin House, Clackamas Literary Review, AGNI Online, The Missouri Review, and The New Yorker.

Matthew, and his twin brother poet Michael Dickman, were the subject of an April 6, 2009 New Yorker profile.

Writing
Boston Review: "Matthew Dickman’s melancholic portraits of impoverished white teenagers dazzle me into the always painful, yet easily forgettable, awareness that many people suffer psychically under the knife of American prosperity. Outside the frame of these poems lurk the children of female-headed homes; parents who work two or more jobs; teenage moms who live in “Drug-Free Zones” and “Urban Renewal Zones,” unkempt neighborhoods whose parks are normally full of drugs; teen addicts slumping toward oblivion; and fathers for whom the closest thing to therapy is domestic abuse."

Recognition
His first book, All-American Poem, was winner of the 2008 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize in Poetry, published by American Poetry Review and distributed by Copper Canyon Press. He was also winner of the 2009 Kate Tufts Discovery Award for that book, and the inaugural May Sarton Award from the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Awards

 * 2006 Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship
 * 2008 Oregon Literary Fellowships recipient
 * 2008 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize in Poetry.
 * 2009 Kate Tufts Discovery Award
 * 2009 Oregon Book Award finalist

Publicationss

 * "SHOW US THE PLEIADES"; "GRIEF", American Public Media
 * Amigos (Q Ave Press, 2007)
 * Something About a Black Scarf (Azul Press, 2008)
 * Amigos (Q Ave Press, 2007)
 * Something About a Black Scarf (Azul Press, 2008)
 * Something About a Black Scarf (Azul Press, 2008)