Matthew Woodman

Writing from Bakersfield, California, Matthew Woodman’s poems, stories, and essays explore issues of (dis)location and (im)permanence.

He has collaborated with Bakersfield Museum of Art [BMOA] to facilitate ekphrastic “Art After Dark” poetry events and has led writing workshops on a variety of topics, including “The Poetics of Inner Geographies: Exploring the Self through Weather and Land.”

His essay on Rufino Tamayo’s mural “Prometheus Bringing Fire to Mankind” was published in UNESCO Art Collection: Selected Works (2021), and his poems have appeared in Fourteen Hills, Puerto del Sol, Sonora Review, and Juked, among other journals and collections. He is the author of This Is Not Your Moon (2020) and was the contributing editor to a series of place-based themed anthologies, most recently Writing Covid (2022).