Literary Magazine Publications
Matthew's poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in the following publications:
(forthcoming unless the journal is underlined)
2025
The African American Review, "Black Men's Sunday School Discussion"
The Sucarnochee Review, "Afternoon Riverboat Casino"
2024
Across the Margin, multiple poems
Delta Poetry Review, "Lightning Bugs Left in Mason Jars"
Glassworks Magazine, "Driving Through Western Maryland"
Heavy Feather Review, "My Front Yard in Summer"
Jerry Jazz Musician, multiple poems
The Lake Magazine, "When the Harlem Renaissance Went to Russia"
The Paddock Review, "We Tell the Sad Stories of Aging Boxers"
Paddler Press, multiple poems
Piker Press, multiple poems
Poetry Super Highway, "On Taking Out the Garbage at a College Apartment"
Pulsebeat Poetry Journal, "The Soundtrack of Summer"
Quarter Press, "The Hellhounds of Mississippi"
The San Antonio Review, "The Inagural Juneteenth Festivity"
The Spit Bucket Zine, "More Sweet Than Science"
The Syncopation Literary Journal, multiple poems
Thimble Literary Magazine, "The Drive Back Home from School with Mom"
Third Wednesday Magazine, "The Greatest Catch by Willie Mays"
The Tuskegee Review, multiple poems
Upstate Artists Guild-Hudson Valley Writer's Guild's Poetic License Art Exhibition - "The Raker of Leaves"
Valley Voices: A Literary Review, "Rural Church Reaper"
The Wilderness House Literary Review, multiple poems
Aethlon: Journal of Sports Literature, "Ordering Mike Tyson Fights on Pay-Per-View"
Every Writer's Resources, "After the Final Baseball Game"
Kinds of Cool: A Collection of Jazz Poetry - anthology
The Museum of Americana, "If There Was Required Reading in Baseball"
Long Leaf Press, "Colored Regiment Returns from WII" - anthology
The Rome Review, multiple poems
Rundelania, multiple poems
2023
The Amistad, "Ol' Black Church Attire"
Baseball Almanac, "Voyage of the Negro League Player"
Casa Azul of Greensboro's Latitudes in Afro-Latinx Art Exhibition - multiple poems
The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, multiple poems
The Decolonial Passage, "Mammy Does the Morning Chores," *Pushcart Prize Nominee*
Eunoia Review, "After the Parochial School Dance"
Fevers of the Mind, multiple poems
Hobo Camp Review, "Scenic Sunday Drive Upstate"
Hudson Valley Writers Guild, multiple poems - anthology
Litt Magazine, "Puerto Rican Dance Festival"
The London Magazine, "The Divine Comedy as a Jazz Piece"
The Lyre, multiple poems
The Museum of Americana, "The Last Dance at Paradise (Harlem)"
North of Oxford, "We Tell the Sad Stories of Aging Boxers"
The Remington Review, "An Opening Day Snow"
Roi Fainéant Press, multiple poems, *Best of the Net Nominee*
San Pedro River Review, "My Father's Vegetable Garden"
The Sport Literate, multiple poems
The Syncopation Literary Journal, multiple poems
Words and Sports Quarterly, multiple poems
2022
Apple Valley Review, "Watering Hole Pastoral"
Bardball, "The Fire and Billy Martin"
Farmer-ish Journal, "The Crows Gathered at Sundown"
Hudson Valley Writers Guild, multiple poems
I-70 Review, "Marcus Garvey Meditates Near the End"
Juke Joint Magazine, "City Slicker Goes Countryside"
The Lyre, multiple poems, Third Place Finish in Poetry Contest
The Northern New England Review, "My Wooster Ave. Christmas - Circa 2003"
The Rye Whiskey Review, "Scenes from a Sports Bar"
Twin Bill, "The Banishment of Moses Fleetwood Walker" *Best of the Net Nominee*
Up the Staircase Quarterly, "Jim Tells Huck Finn a Bedtime Story"
WFDD (NPR Affiliate), Poetry Month Challenge, multiple poems - anthology
2021
Albany Poets, multiple poems
Black Bough Poet, “June Bug Nights”
First Literary Review, “Macbeth Chessboard”
Front Porch Review, "A Puerto Rican Dance Festival"
Kissing Dynamite Poetry, “When I Ran Away From Home and Only Took a Backpack of Rap"
The Mark Literary Review, “Downtown Lights During the Holidays”
New York Quarterly, multiple poems
Night Music Journal, "Jazzman Plays the Songbook"
October Hill Magazine, "Bat Flailing in the Backyard Shed"
Pine Hills Review, "When Black People Get to Swim in Chicago"
Spitball Magazine, "Black Baseball Blues in Pittsburgh"
South Florida Poetry Journal, multiple poems
Trouvaille Review, " A Round Town Full of Squares"
2020
Aethlon: Journal of Sports Literature, “A Commemoration: Ebbets Field”
Chronogram Magazine, “A Prescription from Dr. J”
Ghost City Review, “An Opinion Piece on the Death of Newsprint”
Loud Coffee Press, “Otis”
Maryland Literary Review, “Cain Sings the Moon Blues"
The New Southern Fugitives, “If God Permitted Pirates on the Mississippi”
The Twin Bill, “The Voice of Bob Sheppard,” *Best of the Net Nominee*
The Under Review, “The Norms of the ‘60s Celtics”
The Westchester Review, “The Last Gobstopper of Halloween”
2019
Portrait of New England, two poems
Red Eft Review, “Summer in Starkville, MS”
2018
Anti-Heroin Chic, two poems
Corvus Review, “On Wise Whitman”
Maudlin House, “Dark Comedy”
Mused Literary Review, two poems
The Mystic Blue Review, three poems
The Pangolin Review, “Childhood Memories of Fireworks”
Plum Tree Tavern, “Binghamton June"
The Sport Literate, “Voyage of the Negro League Player”
The Stray Branch, “The Unseen Definite”
Street Light Press, “There Was a Tornado in Brooklyn”
2017
The Occulum, multiple poems
Quail Bell Magazine, multiple poems
The Roanoke Review, “Lazarus is a Black Man,” *Best of the Net Nominee*
Scarlet Leaf Review, multiple poems
2016
Ink in Thirds, “Reading the Face that Appeared in the Mirror”
Jerry Jazz Musician, multiple poems
The News Verse News, “Beautiful and Bitter the Water”
Obsidian Magazine, “Summer in a Ghetto”
Sick Lit Magazine, multiple poems
The Yellow Chair Review, “Looking for Charlie Parker”
2014-15
The Carolinian, multiple poems
The Coraddi, multiple poems
