Matthew Woodman is the founding editor of the journal Rabid Oak. His poems, stories, and essays have been appeared in publications including Puerto del Sol, Sonora Review, Hawai’i Review, Fourteen Hills, Catamaran, and The Moth. He was named the 2018-2023 Kern County Poet Laureate and was awarded the 2018 Outstanding Lecturer at California State University, Bakersfield, where he currently teaches.

Books

• This Is Not Your Moon. (Holding for Dissolve Press, 2020).
  • (Review in North of Oxford)
  • (Review in Tears in the Fence)

Writing/Reading Anthologies (contributing editor)

• Writing Covid (2022).
• Writing Fields (2020).
• Writing Sound (2019).
• Writing Flora, Writing Fauna (2018).
• Writing Work (2017).
• Writing the Drought (2016).

Links to Recent Poems

• “( Caption : add to the startling effect )” and “( Caption : the appearance of dampened clay ).” Amsterdam Review Fall 2022.
• “Still Life, 1928.” Juked (April 2021).
• “The Yellow Chair.” Counterclock 5 (March 2019).
• “The Man with the Stick.” The Shore 1 (Spring 2019).
• “Still Life with Calla Lilies,” “Still Life, 1937,” and “Cosmic Terror.” MORIA 2 (2018).
• “A Podiatrist Considers the Line” and “Plumbing the Limits of Charity.” Five:2:One Magazine’s The Side Show (2017).
• “Man with Birds” and “The Astrologers of Life.” Longleaf Review 1 (2018).
• “Still Life, 1935.” Willawaw 2 (Winter 2017).
• “Birds.” S/WORD. 7 (2017).
• “The Astronomer” and “Man with Flower.” Oxidant/Engine. 2. 2017.
• “Night of Mysteries.” L’Éphémère Review. 3. Jan/Feb 2016.
• “Tidal Friction (The Moon Moves from Earth at the Same Speed Our Fingernails Grow).” Exposition Review I: IX Lives. 2016.
• “The Saguaro Dress.” Hinchas de Poesia 16.  2015.
• “Waxing Gibbous: Coyolxauqui” and “To Move in an Aimless Manner.” Hinchas de Poesia 16. 2015.
• “Constructive Criticism,” “Reservation with Wolves,” and “The Low Voltage of the Moon.” Unsplendid 6.2. 2015

Links to Recent Nonfictions

• “Rufino Tamayo’s Prometheus Bringing Fire to Mankind.” UNESCO Art Collection: Selected Works, 2021.
• “Decolonization.” Storm Cellar 7.2 (2019).

Links to Recent Fictions

• “Three in the Morning.” Former Cactus 7 (2018).
• “In Situ.” Drunk Monkeys. 2.10 (2017).
• “Call It.”  Oblong. 3 (2017).