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Matthew Zingg

Matthew Zingg’s poetry can be read in the Cider Press Review, the Madison Review, NUMU, Lowlog, and Opium Magazine among others. He currently lives in Brooklyn and is a founding member of the writers collective, 1441.
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    Matthew Zingg

    Partyknife by Dan Magers

    When James Wright said, “I have wasted my life,” Dan Magers must haven taken it to heart.

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    Matthew Zingg

    I Have a Jaw That Seeks Chunks

    In Melissa Broder’s second collection, Meat Heart, there is a burgeoning tension between the spiritual life of the imagination and its blood and guts container—the forehead, the hips, the heart—that is both dire and light. At the core of these…

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    Matthew Zingg

    Thumbs In, Fingers Splayed

    Throughout the collection, the speaker in these poems is constantly aware of this contradiction, the intersection between life and art, perhaps frighteningly so, seeking solace in “these few things left,” trying to reconcile, like any reasonable artist, the internal with…