Matthew Nienow
In an intimate conversation the 2013 Ruth Lilly Fellow reads from, and discusses the provocations behind, his powerful manuscript of poems, “House of Water.” More
From the Middle of It
Out here on Discovery in the song light of another long day walking sheets through the blade and drawing shapes upon the bare walls of the house my children will someday return to as strangers and maybe for a moment remember the summer I worked like a madman, the land and the house so new… More
You Want Me to Say It Pretty
Matthew Nienow but under the poison I was committed to I can only remember the first five minutes were so beautiful that it seems impossible how nearly I lost my own children to the woman who was willing to leave me she couldn’t hear the song I made a music I sang to the feeling… More
[In the heart of the canyon was the cause of the canyon]
Matthew Nienow In the heart of the canyon was the cause of the canyon. In the canyon of the heart was the cause of the canyon. Water traveling a gradient, my heart traveling a gradient. That the canyon walls amplified the sound was but a fact. That the fact stilled my heart was but an… More