Matthew Moniz Matthew Moniz Cold Open We are brutal.           or You stand in a restaurant freezer or a grocery freezer or any one just big enough to get locked in comfortably. It’s too cold for birdsong, ...

The opening poem of my manuscript was published in American Literary Review in Nov '24. It's something of an overture that introduces some of the images, language, and ideas that appear throughout the collection.

this ode founded upon a chemistry pun appeared in Notre Dame Review in oct '24. my alma mater's mag!

two sonnets in The London Magazine, which traces its roots back to 1732. Hooke's Law was the first poem I workshopped in my MFA back in 2017. Time was written in my week at Community of Writers in 2019

this sonnet-in-dialogue first appeared in The Iowa Review in aug '24

Koko's kitten — Susurrus

this poem about communication and projection first appeared in Susurrus in April 2024 and was later nominated by them for both the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net

Poetry: All forms & styles||Matthew Moniz|"The Way We Hold Each Other" - O:JA&L Mississippi poet Matthew Moniz offers us an emotionally rich and complex experience through his speaker of this poignant reminiscence.

This sentimental poem was published in Jan '24 in Open: Jounal of Arts & Letters

This zuckerberg=frankenstein poem first appeared in Pangyrus in Jan '24. They later included it in their print anthology

This abecedarian was published in minnesota review in December 2023

Letter to America by Matthew Moniz - Terrain.org "#BreadAndCircuses," a digital media Letter to America poem for our time by Matthew Moniz, with audio.

newly published "Letter to America" poem up at terrain (dot)org! with audio recording!

This dishearteningly still-relevant sonnet sequence first appeared in Let's Stab Caesar in Nov '23 (online) and Dec '23 (print)

www.letsstabcaesar.com/volume-4/#mo...

These two poems - a book-burning aftermath aubade and a syllabic reflection on time - first appeared in the Watershed Review in October 2023

This poem about human curiosity first appeared in Sept '23 in Innisfree Poetry Journal

This maybe-nature poem first appeared in the (now defunct?) Paperbark Online in August '23

This bit of pickley nonsense was published in the Naugatuck River Review in August 2023

and here's the other poem (with its own kind of mythologizing) that Lost Pilots was kind enough to publish in July 2023

This spin on mythology is one of two poems that first appeared in Lost Pilots Lit in July 2023

Moniz, Matthew — The Rush

I wrote this poem in Latin during undergrad. It was published in The Rush in July 2023

This violent ars poetica first appeared in Maryland Literary Review in June 2023

this poem originally appeared in Fourteen Hills in May 2023

got a sarcastic little three-liner in the latest issue of The Quarter(ly)

2023 Kim Bridgford Memorial Sonnet Crown Contest Winner | Poetry by the Sea "after The Planets" is dazzling, a planetary firework display.

This sonnet crown - an ecocritical ekphrasis of Gustav Holst's concert suite The Planets - won Poetry By the Sea's Kim Bridgford Memorial Sonnet Crown Contest in 2023 and was published in April of that year

The Emperor’s New Clothes By Matthew Moniz Once, in the days of the Red Scare, respected newspaper magnate Edward Rojoja produced a completely blank Daily Edition and told everyone it was printed with a special new ink invi…

this alternate history poem first appeared in MoonPark Review in June 2022 and was nominated by them for a pushcart

Parable of Sparrow and Crocodile - Grist Originally from the DC area, Matthew Moniz has poems appearing in or forthcoming from The Iowa Review, Notre Dame Review, Crab Orchard Review, Meridian, Tupelo Quarterly, Fourteen Hills, and minnesota...

new poem in Grist!

it might remind you of CURRENT EVENTS

it might remind you of someone you know

it might remind you of you

This contrapuntal originally appeared in Meridian in May '22

this memory poem and tattoo poem first appeared in Call Me [Brackets] in May 2022 (pg 80)

if you'll be at awp or otherwise in la this friday, i'll be reading some poems at this event! come hear some words

Matthew Moniz ​ Thaw ​​ early Spring 2021               It’s springtime, and dead things are everywhere.             On my driveway lies a young vole-thing, a present...

this covid poem and hurricane poem were first published in G*MOB in April '22

my Mark Zuckerberg = Victor Frankenstein poem just got reprinted in Pangyrus' print anthology

Purgatorio | Matthew Moniz The First Word: go It thunders without rain. The lightning has no place to go.The Second Word: depending Scars are a mark of pain or a sign of growth depending on who you show them to.The Third Word: ...

This moody poem originally appeared in Lammergeier in March 2022

4 (four) poems out in Descant!
Including:
-a sonnet which was the first thing I wrote after sending all my mfa apps in and which I still have memorized
-light lunar verse
-a golden shovel on both sides from emily dickinson (written at CoW!)
-a hamlet-esque persona-ish soliloquy