Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty
Matthew Rohrer is the author of Rise Up (Wave Books, 2007) and A Green Light (Verse Press, 2004), which was shortlisted for the 2005 Griffin Poetry Prize. He is also the author of Satellite (Verse Press, 2001), and co-author, with Joshua Beckman, of Nice Hat. Thanks. (Verse Press, 2002), and the audio CD Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. He has appeared on NPR's "All Things Considered" and "The Next Big Thing." His first book, A Hummock in the Malookas was selected for the National Poetry Series by Mary Oliver in 1994. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches in the undergraduate writing program at NYU.
Listen to him reading Mountain.
Check out Matthew Rohrer and Peter Richards' round-robin tournament on QuickMuse.
Read a review of Rise Up in Jacket.
Read a review of Rise Up in Open Letters.
Read two poems and an interview on the blog reader of depressing books.
Read an interview on pshares blog.
Read from The Ideograms on bear parade.
Read Rohrer's interview about Electric Light Orchestra in Poetry Northwest.
Hear Matthew Rohrer's Griffin Speech.
"Spy Satellites" from Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty
current readings with Matthew Rohrer:
7/7/2008 — Paris, France
reviews of Matthew Rohrer's work:
Coldfront Magazine — 05/01/2007
Kathleen Rooney, Open Letters — 04/01/2007
Publishers Weekly — 03/07/2007
Open Books Poetry — 03/01/2007
Judges' Citation, the 2005 International Griffin Poetry Prize — 04/01/2005
Boston Review — 04/01/2005
Zach Schomburg, Octopus Magazine
Jen Bervin, Rain Taxi — 01/01/2003
Monique van den Berg, Bookslut
Spencer Short, Boston Review — 06/01/2002