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). He is the author of Kind Surgery
from Urtica Press (Fr.) and Waiting for Better from Main Street Rag Press.
His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Verse Daily, Rattle, Bayou Magazine,
Redivider, The National Poetry Review, New York Quarterly, Modern Haiku, Tulane
Review, Reed Magazine, DIAGRAM, Hiram Poetry Review, Slipstream, Soundings East,
The Midwest Quarterly, Spoon River Poetry Review and Cider Press Review,
among others. His fiction has appeared in ShortStory Substack, THEMA, GUD,
The Blue Crow (Aus), Prole (UK), The Wondrous Real and Story Unlikely.
He has also made poetry videos with Michael Dickes, Marc Neys,
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