What Are the Men Writing in the Sugar?

by Matty Bennett

When Matty Bennett writes, "I put everything on display," it doesn't feel like he's showing off, but showing in. These poems ripple with sweetness and vulnerability, they bubble with details that are as carefully chosen as they are skillfully rendered. Bennett wants to "be a man in love and let that be everything." Can it be everything? This engaging, endearing collection reminds us that it can.

-Mark Bibbins, author of 13th Balloon

Matty Bennett's debut collection is a beauty of a book, full of quirky, romantic, thoroughly original poems brimming with Sicilian landscapes, gay life in America, and the complex passions shared by young men.

-Jeff Mann, author of A Romantic Mann and Redneck Bouquet

The poems in Bennett's debut collection are intimate and full of longing, as well as an optimism that seems to arrive from the longing itself. He knows that it's better to want something, and to live in the world, than not to. This book is romantic and truly accessible. I loved reading it.

- Alex Dimitrov, author of Love and Other Poems

Genres: Poetry, LGBT

64 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 20, 2021

About the author

Matty Bennett is the author of What Are the Men Writing in the Sugar? (2021), his debut poetry collection, and We Give Support, Not Advice (2022), a YA novel-in-verse, both from Rebel Satori's Queer Mojo imprint.

He received his MFA in poetry from Virginia Tech, and his work has appeared or been reviewed in The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, Juked, Homology Lit, Cardiff Review, Philadelphia Gay News, and others. He is currently an upper school English teacher and track coach at Moses Brown School in Providence, RI.

Reviews

[Matty Bennett · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well, I wrote this book, so... personally I really love it! 😂