Matt Schumacher
Matt Schumacher is a vagabond transplant who considers himself an Oregonian. His first collection of poetry, Spilling the Moon, was published by Wordcraft of Oregon in 2008, and his second collection, The Fire Diaries, was published by the same press in 2010. Three new projects, Blueprints for Spiderwebs, favorite maritime drinking songs of the miraculous alcoholics, and Ghost Town Odes, are in the works. His poems have recently appeared in Vallum, ZYZZYVA, and Painted Bride Quarterly, and he is poetry editor for a magazine of New Fabulism named Phantom Drift.
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Recognizing the need for poetry in our lives, the Oregon Poetic Voices Project (OPV) is a comprehensive digital archive of poetry readings that will complement existing print collections of poetry across the state.
"We each carry lines of poetry with us. Words that others have written float back to us and stay with us, indelibly. We clutch these "life lines" like totems, repeat them as mantras, and summon them for comfort and laughter."
-Academy of American Poets
