Matthew Thorburn
{{short description|American poet}}
File:Witter Bynner Fellows Poetry Reading 2008 - Matthew Thorburn.jpg
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,{{cite web |url=http://www.umich.edu/news/MT/NewsE/01_05/ |title=UofM News |access-date=2009-07-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090619174415/http://www.umich.edu/news/MT/NewsE/01_05/ |archive-date=2009-06-19 }} and The New School with an MFA.{{cite web |url=http://www.newschool.edu/alumni/nsgsclassnotes.html |title=The New School |access-date=2009-07-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090418013029/http://newschool.edu/alumni/nsgsclassnotes.html |archive-date=2009-04-18 }} He lives in New York City.{{Cite web|url=http://www.pw.org/content/matthew_thorburn|title=Matthew Thorburn|date=6 April 2018 }}{{Cite web |url=http://waywiser-press.com/matthewthorburn.html |title=The Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize 2007, Two Poems by Matthew Thorburn |access-date=2009-07-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090319011109/http://waywiser-press.com/matthewthorburn.html |archive-date=2009-03-19 |url-status=dead }}
He was one of the founders of Good Foot magazine, co-editing the journal from 2000 to 2004.{{Cite web |last=Hilton |first=John |date=2004-12-01 |title=Matthew Thorburn |url=https://annarborobserver.com/matthew-thorburn/ |access-date=2023-05-16 |website=Ann Arbor Observer |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=2003-08-05 |title=Good Foot |url=http://www.goodfootmagazine.com/bios.htm |access-date=2023-05-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030805232225/http://www.goodfootmagazine.com/bios.htm |archive-date=2003-08-05 }}
His poems have appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review,{{cite journal |title=Five Poems |journal=The Paris Review |date=Winter 2006 |volume=Winter 2006 |issue=179 |url=https://www.theparisreview.org/poetry/5681/five-poems-dean-young }} Prairie Schooner,{{cite journal |last1=Thorburn |first1=Matthew |title=Just You, Just Me |journal=Prairie Schooner |date=2003 |volume=77 |issue=3 |pages=107–108 |doi=10.1353/psg.2003.0099 |s2cid=73158373 |id={{Project MUSE|46824}} }} Poetry Northwest,{{cite web |url=http://www.poetrynw.org/node/76 |title=Issue Four Table of Contents | Poetry Northwest |access-date=2009-07-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080808142126/http://www.poetrynw.org/node/76 |archive-date=2008-08-08 }} 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.{{Cite web |title=Monica Youn and Matthew Thorburn |url=https://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/youn_thorburn08.html |access-date=2023-05-16 |website=www.albany.edu}}
- 2009 BRIO Fellowship from the Bronx Council on the Arts
- 2023 King Of EK (the real identity)
Works
- {{cite journal| url=http://www.poolpoetry.com/thorburn.html| title=Gravy Boat| journal=Pool| date=2008 }}
- {{cite journal| url=http://www.memorious.org/?id=374| title=Little Thieves| journal=Memorious| issue=16|year=2011 }}
- {{cite journal| url=http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=mqr;cc=mqr;q1=The%20Documentary%20Imagination%20%20Part%20Two;rgn=main;view=text;idno=act2080.0045.119
| title=Self-Portrait in Secondhand Tuxedo| journal=Michigan Quarterly Review| date=Winter 2006 | volume=XLV| issue=1| last1=Thorburn| first1=Matthew}}
- {{cite journal| url=http://linebreak.org/poems/the-trick-with-the-stick/| title=The Trick with the Stick| journal=Linebreak| date=August 2009 }}
- {{cite journal| url=http://memoirjournal.squarespace.com/to-the-net-master/| title=To the Net Master| journal=Memoir (and)| issue=6| year=2010| access-date=2011-07-27| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110926161453/http://memoirjournal.squarespace.com/to-the-net-master/| archive-date=2011-09-26| url-status=dead}}
- {{cite journal| url=http://poems.com/special_features/prose/essay_thorburn.php| title='Bamboo that seems Always my own Thoughts': Reading David Hinton's Classical Chinese Poetry: An Anthology
| journal=Rowboat: Poetry in Translation| date=Summer 2011 }}
- {{cite book| title=Subject to Change| publisher=New Issues/Western Michigan University| year=2004 | isbn=978-1-930974-46-3 }}
- String, Louisiana State University Press, 2023. {{ISBN|9780807179888}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4293 "Witter Bynner Poetry Reading", Library of Congress]
- [http://www.matthewthorburn.net/ "Author's website"]
- [http://www.boxcarpoetry.com/014/interview_leeming_thorburn.html "Behind the Book: An Interview with Jay Leeming by Matthew Thorburn", Boxcar Review, May 2008]
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