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Matt Schumacher

Matt Schumacher
Matt Schumacher, poetry editor of the journal Phantom Drift, cohabitates with many people and animals in Portland, Oregon. A chapbook of his fantastical drinking songs, favorite maritime drinking songs of the miraculous alcoholics, is out now from Finishing Line Press. Ghost Town Odes, his third book of poetry, will be published in spring 2016.

why they drink deep (reprise)

By Matt Schumacher
Poetry•Vol. XXVIII No. 3 (Winter 2015)

the rest wander among men as numberless sorrows, since earth and sea teem with miseries. — Hesiod   to sink like krill in a baleen and swirl down to the unseen, diving bell the belly of blue whale, framed by the eye of bigfin squid. to be some terrible thing poseidon did. to binge until… [Read More]

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