Matthew Dickman is a rising young poet from Portland, Oregon and the author of All-American Poem, which won the 2008 APR/Honickman First Book Prize, the May Sarton poetry prize from the American Academy of Arts and Science, and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. His poems, which reflect his affinity for Portland and the Lent district where he grew up, have appeared in a wide range of publications, including The New Yorker and Tin House. He has received several fellowships for his work; Dickman has been profiled in Poets & Writers and The New Yorker; with his twin brother, poet Michael Dickman. The New Yorker said this about their poetry: “Michael and Matthew Dickman…often draw from a similar well of images and experiences: the rough neighborhood of their youth, with its violent fathers, beleaguered mothers, and reckless, neglected kids….Matthew’s poems are effusive, ecstatic, and all-embracing…Matthew is a whirling dervish.”
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