In this follow-up collection to the National Poetry Series winner A Hummock in the Malookas, Rohrer’s poems play against convention, finding dark, surreal underpinnings in the seemingly innocent objec
“Equal parts punk rock and pastoral, [Rohrer has] a voice that seems unearthly in its ability to be detached and simultaneously tender.”—American PoetApproaching pleasure and terror with the same sear
"Rohrer has an enchanting willingness to look outward, a willingness not to grasp the world using old means which have failed us, even if no new means present themselves ready-made."?Judges' citation,
"Rohrer's frequently beautiful, brief poems are rooted in specific images that initially seem unrelatedbut which ultimately form a unity as meditations on how the ordinary distractions of eve
"Rohrer's frequently beautiful, brief poems are rooted in specific images that initially seem unrelatedbut which ultimately form a unity as meditations on how the ordinary distractions of eve
A gripping, eerie, and hilarious novel-in-verse from poet Matthew Rohrer. In a Russian-doll of fictional episodes, we follow a midlevel publishing assistant over the course of a day as he encounters g
A gripping, eerie, and hilarious novel-in-verse from poet Matthew Rohrer. In a Russian-doll of fictional episodes, we follow a midlevel publishing assistant over the course of a day as he encounters g
Matthew Rohrer’s simple, hilarious, generous and strangely disquieting poems conjure versions of the most familiar aspects of our lives—friendship, marriage, childhood, work—into which intrude incong
After their Fall 2002 whirlwind tour supporting their book of collaborative poems, Nice Hat. Thanks, these acclaimed poets return with a collection of the finest new poems created live as they rambled
Fence Magazine is a print an online literary publication containing original fiction, poetry, art, and criticism of an experimental or avant garde nature (but still considered accessible to the genera
Fence evades the tedium of the decade with this anthology, co-edited by eleven editors, past and present. A stunningly eclectic compendium of poetry, short fiction, criticism, and creative nonfiction,
