Matt Rasmussen
{{short description|American poet}}
Matt Rasmussen is an American poet, and a founder of poetry publishing house Birds LLC. He was born in International Falls, Minnesota. He obtained degrees from Emerson College and Gustavus Adolphus College, where he teaches.[https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/matt-rasmussen Matt Rasmussen], poets.org.
Black Aperture, his first book, which is primarily concerned with his brother's suicide,{{cite web|last1=Klein|first1=Michael|title=Brothers Who Got Lost: Black Aperture by Matt Rasmussen and Flies by Michael Dickman|url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/brothers-who-got-lost-black-aperture-by-matt-rasmussen-and-flies-by-michael-dickman|website=Los Angeles Review of Books|accessdate=27 December 2016}}{{cite web|last1=Lund|first1=Elizabeth|title=Finalists for the National Book Award in poetry|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/finalists-for-the-national-book-award-in-poetry/2013/11/19/d435fd34-4ae4-11e3-be6b-d3d28122e6d4_story.html|website=The Washington Post|accessdate=27 December 2016}} was a 2013 National Book Award finalist and 2014 Minnesota Book Awards winner.
Works
= Poetry =
- Fingergun (2006), chapbook. Kitchen Press.
- Black Aperture (2013). Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. {{ISBN|978-0807150863}}
Awards and honors
- Walt Whitman Award, 2012
- National Book Award Finalist, 2013
- Minnesota Book Awards, 2014{{cite web|title=Past Winners and Finalists: 2014|url=https://thefriends.org/events/mnba/winners-and-finalists/past-winners-and-finalists/past-winners-and-finalists-2014/|website=Minnesota Book Awards|publisher=The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library|accessdate=26 December 2016}}
References
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External links
- {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20130810114914/http://www.mattrasmussen.net/ Matt Rasmussen's personal website]}}
- [http://www.birdsllc.com/ Birds LLC website]
- [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/matt-rasmussen Profile at the Poetry Foundation website]
- [http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2013_p_rasmussen.html#.WGGbvfkrKUk Profile at the National Book Foundation website]
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