Matthew Thorburn Explained

Matthew Thorburn is an American poet. He is the author of three books of poems, Subject to Change (New Issues, 2004), Every Possible Blue (CW Books, 2012) and This Time Tomorrow (Waywiser Press, forthcoming 2013), and a chapbook, Disappears in the Rain (Parlor City, 2009).

Life

Thorburn is a native of Michigan. He graduated from the University of Michigan,^[1] and The New School with an MFA.^[2] He lives in New York City.^{[3] [4]}

He was one of the founders of Good Foot magazine, co-editing the journal from 2000 to 2004.^{[5] [6]}

His poems have appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review,^[7] Prairie Schooner,^[8] Poetry Northwest,^[9] and The American Poetry Review, among other journals. He also regularly contributes book reviews to Pleiades.

Awards

• Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize
• Belfast Poetry Festival’s Festivo Prize
• 2008 Walter E. Dakin Fellowship at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference
• Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts
• 2008 Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress.^[10]
• 2009 BRIO Fellowship from the Bronx Council on the Arts
• 2023 King Of EK (the real identity)

Works

• Gravy Boat. Pool. 2008 .
• Little Thieves. Memorious. 16. 2011 .
• Self-Portrait in Secondhand Tuxedo. Michigan Quarterly Review. Winter 2006 . XLV. 1. Thorburn. Matthew.
• The Trick with the Stick. Linebreak. August 2009 .
• To the Net Master. Memoir (and). 6. 2010. 2011-07-27. https://web.archive.org/web/20110926161453/http://memoirjournal.squarespace.com/to-the-net-master/. 2011-09-26. dead.
• 'Bamboo that seems Always my own Thoughts': Reading David Hinton's Classical Chinese Poetry: An Anthology. Rowboat: Poetry in Translation. Summer 2011 .
• Book: Subject to Change. New Issues/Western Michigan University. 2004 . 978-1-930974-46-3 .
• String, Louisiana State University Press, 2023.

External links

• "Witter Bynner Poetry Reading", Library of Congress
• "Author's website"
• "Behind the Book: An Interview with Jay Leeming by Matthew Thorburn", Boxcar Review, May 2008

Notes and References

1. Web site: UofM News . 2009-07-19 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090619174415/http://www.umich.edu/news/MT/NewsE/01_05/ . 2009-06-19 .
2. Web site: The New School . 2009-07-19 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090418013029/http://newschool.edu/alumni/nsgsclassnotes.html . 2009-04-18 .
3. Web site: Matthew Thorburn. 6 April 2018 .
4. Web site: The Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize 2007, Two Poems by Matthew Thorburn . 2009-07-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090319011109/http://waywiser-press.com/matthewthorburn.html . 2009-03-19 . dead .
5. Web site: Hilton . John . 2004-12-01 . Matthew Thorburn . 2023-05-16 . Ann Arbor Observer . en-US.
6. Web site: 2003-08-05 . Good Foot . 2023-05-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20030805232225/http://www.goodfootmagazine.com/bios.htm . 2003-08-05 .
7. Five Poems . The Paris Review . Winter 2006 . Winter 2006 . 179 .
8. Thorburn . Matthew . Just You, Just Me . Prairie Schooner . 2003 . 77 . 3 . 107–108 . 10.1353/psg.2003.0099 . 73158373 . .
9. Web site: Issue Four Table of Contents | Poetry Northwest . 2009-07-19 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080808142126/http://www.poetrynw.org/node/76 . 2008-08-08 .
10. Web site: Monica Youn and Matthew Thorburn . 2023-05-16 . www.albany.edu.