Matt Dennison
After a rather extended and varied second childhood in New Orleans (street musician, psych- tech, riverboat something-or-other, door-to-door poetry peddler, etc.), Matt Dennison finished his undergraduate degree at Mississippi State University where he won the National Sigma Tau Delta essay competition (judged by X.J. Kennedy). His work has appeared in Rattle, Bayou Magazine, Redivider, Natural Bridge, The Spoon River Poetry Review and Cider Press Review, among others. He has also made short films with Michael Dickes, Swoon, and Marie Craven.
OMAHA
When fathers stopped wearing fedoras at ballgames
unity and chaos wrestled in the mud.
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When fathers stopped telling the old jokes
quills grew on the tongues of...
#Metoo Today
The sex falls in
flecks and sputters as the
limousine windows slide down
...
The Bird
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzwgB7EEZbU
The bird circles endlessly in my room, in the half-light—
comes close, carries the harsh carnival of his eye to mine,
causing my neck to fall...
