Matthew Yeager, Guest Blogger April 18-24

This week we welcome Matthew Yeager as our guest blogger.  Matthew's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Best American Poetry 2005, Best American Poetry 2010, Bat City Review, NY Quarterly, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere.   His short film "A Big Ball of Foil in a Small NY Apartment," was an official selection at ten film festivals in 2009, picking up two awards.  Other distinctions include the 2009 Barthelme Prize in Short Prose.  The son of a coal-miner’s daughter, he graduated St. Xavier High School in 1998.  His hobbies include bicycling, mixology, going to the chiropractor, and consuming as much content as possible as pertains the Cincinnati Bengals.  With Sean Logan, he is the co-founder of Chicken Truck Production.  Matthew lives in Brooklyn, NY.