Matt Donovan

Biography

Matt Donovan is the author of Vellum and the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and a Literature Fellowship from the NEA. He directs the Creative Writing and Literature Department at the College of Santa Fe.

See Work

Summer 2010

Leaving Trinity: Ten Ground-Zero Swerves

By Matt Donovan
POETRY / Spring 2008

Motel Makeshift Lullaby

By Matt Donovan

Crossing the Iowa prairies, Dvorak found in the waving grasses, in the sway & whorl of foxtail that let loose a rasping he loved, sorrow he never explained.

POETRY / Spring 2008

Psalm

By Matt Donovan

The trick was breathing in, you claimed, as if that was all they gathered to watch as you milked the crowd in your matador sash, rum-slurring some speech no one could hear above the river’s thunder.