Words on a Wire

Interview with Mathew Dickman. Sunday, February 17, 2013.


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80: Mathew Dickman talks about his latest poetry book, Mayakovsky's Revolver and how Frank O'Hara and a dream inspired the title of the collection. Daniel, Ben and Mathew talk about language driven literature and like Flannery O'Connor's fiction, Dickman's poems organically travel and surprise the reader.
Matthew Dickman reads the Poem of the Week: "Gas Station" from "Mayakovsky's Revolver."
In this week's Poetic License, Sasha Pimentel-Chacon shares memories from her childhood and her homeland in the Philippines, and how she relates those memories to light & dark spaces in the poetic form.
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