Artists

Artist Bio

Matthew Olzmann’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Kenyon Review, New England Review, Salt Hill, Margie, Atlanta Review and elsewhere. He has been awarded fellowships from The Kenyon Review Writers Workshop and Kundiman, a work-study scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Oboh Prize from Boxcar Poetry Review. Currently, he is a writer-in-residence for InsideOut Literary Arts Project and the poetry editor of The Collagist. www.nereview.com/30-4/Olzmann-Sir%20Isaac%20Newton.htm

ArtX Project Description

Title: Untitled
Medium: Poetry Reading
Year Created: 2011
Description: Bigfoot gets shot, a man writes a series of letters to a shipwreck, a dead body rides the subway, & NASA video transmission is picked up by a baby monitor. Olzmann is interested in the figurative potential of the “absurd”, and how it can reveal new relationships between us and the world around us. He will be participating in two readings, including one with Vievee Francis and Rachel Harkai, and one with Chris Tysh. Olzmann will be reading poems from two different manuscripts-in-progress.