Matt Morris writes: "When I was born, summer/began & spring passed" opens my semi-autobiographical heroic poem, in which I catalog many of my recent publications, including ABZ, Barbaric Yawp, Blue Mesa Review, DMQ, 88, Free Lunch, Georgetown Review, Hunger Mountain, Manthology: Poems of the Male Experience, New York Quarterly, New Zoo Poetry Review, Runes, Segue, Swink, and other magazines and anthologies. Meanwhile on Ogygia, as those of you familiar with the story will recall, my first book, Nearing Narcoma, won the 2003 Main Street Rag Poetry Award (selected by Joy Harjo). Having escaped Calypso, despite the lure of immortality, I'm currently circulating--strapped to the mast of my ship--my second book-length manuscript of poems. Still waiting for my ship to come in, the clever & ever popular Penelope, by no coincidence, faithfully reads my recent Pudding House chapbook, Here's How. Shouldn't you?"
