Destroyer and Preserver

Matthew Rohrer is the author of A Plate of Chicken, Rise Up, A Green Light, Satellite, and A Hummock in the Malookas. With Joshua Beckman he wrote Nice Hat. Thanks. and recorded the audio CD Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty.His poems have been widely anthologized and have appeared in many journals. He’s received the Hopwood Award for poetry and a Pushcart prize. A Hummock in the Malookas was selected for the National Poetry Series, and A Green Light was shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize. Recently he has participated in residencies/performances at the Museum of Modern Art (New York City) and the Henry Art Gallery (Seattle).Matthew Rohrer was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, was raised in Oklahoma, and attended universities in Ann Arbor, Dublin, Ireland and Iowa City. He teaches in the creative writing program at NYU and lives in Brooklyn.

The world's enduring struggles fuse with a family's tiniest gestures in this popular NY-based poet's most recent collection.

From MarsWhat Is More Distracting Than CloudsPoets With History/Poets Without HistoryGhostMarque Número DosDull AffairsThey Pull a Suicide from the WaterThe Smell of Frying FishPoem for Music¿s DistractionsPoem for StarlingsBelieveCasualtiesMy VoteTwo Hours of CryingRodinaFor Which I Love YouAt the Deux MagotsInside OutPoem with the Title at the EndSkywardThe TerroristsDisplay Case of SteakDrinking with Your BrotherPoem for Mideast PeacePoem for My ThirtiesEnough with AbstractionWhere the Hawk PausesNew MexicoA Sunny LunchFlowersPoem on the Occasion of the Midterm ElectionPieDiptychPoem for AsthmaPoem for the WindMary Wollstonecraft Traveling with Her KidsPoem for German HeritageNot QuestionsGoodmorningRed FlowersWu Wei