Matthew Dickman

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Matthew Dickman
Born (1975-08-20) August 20, 1975 (age 48)
Portland, Oregon, U.S.
OccupationPoet
NationalityAmerican
Education Portland Community College
University of Oregon (BA)
University of Texas at Austin
Notable awards Kate Tufts Discovery Award (2009)
ParentsAllen Hull
Wendy Dickman
Relatives Michael Dickman (brother)

Matthew Dickman (born August 20, 1975) is an American poet. He and his identical twin brother, Michael Dickman, also a poet, were born in Portland, Oregon.

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Life

The Dickman twins (Matthew is the younger and slightly taller) were raised in the Lents neighborhood of Portland, which declined into a dangerous neighborhood after a highway was built through it in 1975. Their mother, Wendy Dickman, raised them alone; her stepfather was the father of poet Sharon Olds. [1] They have a younger half-sister and an older half-brother and half-sister through their father, Allen Hull. [2] After starting at the elementary school across the street, the boys attended private schools. Matthew Dickman went to Portland Community College and then graduated with a B.A. from the University of Oregon in 2001; the brothers then studied creative writing together at the University of Texas at Austin. [1] The twins had a brief stint as actors, featuring in the 2002 Steven Spielberg film Minority Report as the precognitive twins. [1] [2] After graduate school Matthew Dickman lived in Hudson, New York, but by 2009 both had returned to Portland, where he worked at Whole Foods; both brothers supported themselves with food-service jobs since a joint apprenticeship to a butcher at age thirteen. [1]

Career

Matthew Dickman has received fellowships from The Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin, The Vermont Studio Center, and The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. [3] He is the author of three chapbooks, Amigos, Something about a Black Scarf and Wish You Were Here, and three full-length poetry collections. His first book, All-American Poem, was winner of the 2008 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize in Poetry, published by American Poetry Review and distributed by Copper Canyon Press. [1] He was also the winner of the 2009 Kate Tufts Discovery Award for that book, and the inaugural May Sarton Award from the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. His second full collection of poetry, Mayakovsky's Revolver, was published by W. W. Norton and Company in 2012. [4] He is also the coauthor with his brother, of the 2012 poetry collection 50 American Plays, also published by Copper Canyon Press, and the 2016 Brother, a collection of poems on their half-brother's suicide. [2] His third collection, Wonderland, was published in 2018 by Norton. [5]

His work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Tin House, Clackamas Literary Review, AGNI Online, [6] The Missouri Review, [7] and The New Yorker. [8]

Dickman works in advertising where he is a freelance senior copy writer and creative director. He has been a Visiting Writer at Reed College, [9] and is an adjunct fellow at The Attic institute in Portland. [10]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Rebecca Mead (April 6, 2009). "Couplet: A Tale of Twin Poets". The New Yorker.
  2. 1 2 3 Alex Clark (June 19, 2016). "The only way I could really talk about his suicide was in a poem". The Guardian (interview).
  3. ↑ "Matthew Dickman".
  4. ↑ "Fiction Review: Mayakovsky's Revolver by Matthew Dickman". Publishersweekly.com. 2012-06-25. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
  5. ↑ "Wonderland Book Page" . Retrieved 2018-05-07.
  6. ↑ "AGNI Online: Author Matthew Dickman". Web.bu.edu. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
  7. ↑ "The Missouri Review". The Missouri Review. Archived from the original on 2013-02-06. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
  8. ↑ "Search". The New Yorker .
  9. ↑ "Reed College | News Center | Matthew Dickman". Reed.edu. 2009-04-09. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
  10. ↑ "Teachers & Staff". Attic Institute. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
  11. ↑ "Arts: Feb 9th, 2006". Provincetown Banner. 2006-02-09. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
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