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Matt Thomas is a smallholder farmer, engineer, and Pushcart Prize nominated poet. His poetry has appeared in The Wild Word, Tiny Seeds Literary Journal, Bear Paw Arts Review, Triggerfish Review, the Hampden-Sydney Review, Hiram Review, Galway Review, Cleaver Magazine, River Heron Review, Dunes Review, the Avalon Literary Review, Copihue Review, and elsewhere. Disappearing by the Math, a book length collection, was published by Silver Bow in 2024. He and his family live in Virginia where they practice land conservation and stewardship in the historic Shenandoah Valley. They are glad denizens of DC, Philadelphia, Traverse City, and Marquette.

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New Books Soon!

Hey everyone (anyone lol),

I have two new books arriving within the next couple of months. 1, a full-length collection, Cicada, Dog, & Song, about the way we make our homes in nature, from Serving House Books.

"These poems arrive like field notes from a life deeply lived, with a farmer’s patience and an engineer’s precision." - Renee K. Nicholson

"In the tradition of Robert Frost and Ted Hughes, [Th Read more of this blog post »

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Published on February 06, 2026 07:50 • Tags: new-books, new-poetry, poetry, poetry-collections

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Home and Away: Writing the Beautiful Game

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In the Land of the Cyclops: Essays

by Karl Ove Knausgård

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