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Matt Bialer

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Bronx, New York, The United States

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Poetry, Science Fiction, Horror

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Matt Bialer is the author of eight books of poetry including Radius (Les Editions du Zaporogue), Already Here, Ark, Black Powder, (all from Black Coffee Press) Bridge (Leaky Boot Press) ,Tell Them What I Saw (PS Publishing, UK) He Walks On All Fours (Dynatox Ministries) and Ascent (Bizarro Pulp Press). His poems have appeared in many print and online journals including La Zaporogue, Green Mountains Review, Gobbet, Forklift Ohio, Cultural Weekly and H_NGM_N. He is also an acclaimed black and white street photographer and watercolorist who has exhibited widely. Some of his photographs are in the permanent collections of The Brooklyn Museum, The Museum of the City of New York and the The New York Public Library and his watercolors are in many ...more

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	Ascent 4.10 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Valley of the Eight it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bridge: Long Poems of the Extraordinary 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Already Here: Long Poems 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Formation 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	TELL THEM WHAT I SAW 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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WHY I WRITE

I wrote the following essay for the amazing literary journal Green Mountain Review. It is on their website. They have superb poetry and prose there.

Because I have to. Of course.

But I stopped writing for 25 years. I just couldn’t do it. I got back to it many years later. It was a long and educational journey.

Flash back to Vassar College, early 1980’s. I was a poet and prolific one at that. One of m Read more of this blog post »

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I read Hollis Kurman’s gorgeous debut collection UNLIKELY SKYLIGHT during three New York City subway rides. It was somehow very fitting. No, these poems are not noisy or clanky. Far from it. They’re an eloquent escape from a constantly loud and abras ...more
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