Portrait of Matt Donovan

Matt Donovan

Matt Donovan is the author most recently of The Dug-Up Gun Museum (BOA Editions, 2022), Rapture & the Big Bam (Tupelo, 2017), the collection of lyric essays A Cloud of Unusual Size and Shape: Meditations on Ruin and Redemption (Trinity University Press, 2016), andVellum (Mariner, 2007), which won the 2008 Levis Reading Prize. His poetry and nonfiction have appeared in journals such as Poetry, Black Warrior Review, The Kenyon Review, The Threepenny ReviewAGNI, and Virginia Quarterly Review. He has received a Rome Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Pushcart Prize, a Creative Capital Grant, an National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and a Whiting Award. He is director of the Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College. (updated 10/2022)

AGNI has published the following work:

Elegy for Jane

Poetry by Matt Donovan

A Brief History of Bang

Hybrid by Matt Donovan

House of the Faun, Pompeii

Essay by Matt Donovan

Monkey Mind: A Meditative Path to Perfection

Essay by Matt Donovan

Elegy with Mistakes All through It

Poetry by Matt Donovan

Van Gogh’s First Sunday Sermon

Poetry by Matt Donovan

Two Songs About the Work of Hands

Poetry by Matt Donovan

Bessie Smith’s Last Recorded Song

Poetry by Matt Donovan

Bullied Into Thoughts About the Body & Desire at the Colorado State Fair

Poetry by Matt Donovan

How Graceland’s Decorator Landed the Gig

Poetry by Matt Donovan

Fumbling with a Field Guide on the Back Arroyo Trail

Poetry by Matt Donovan

Patio Lull with House Guest and View

Poetry by Matt Donovan

Thumb Trick

Poetry by Matt Donovan

Charlie Chaplin Dug Up & Ransomed: A Prayer

Poetry by Matt Donovan

The Scabbard of Limbs Means Flesh

Poetry by Matt Donovan

Second Pilgrimage, Rodeo Nites

Poetry by Matt Donovan
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