matthew leger
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musician, poet, MFA candidate @ CU Boulder, poetry editor @timberjournal
Joined October 2021
Hello everyone! I have a new album out today, titled "Quickly Aging Here," (shoutout Denis Johnson!) if anybody wants to check it out. On spotify + all streaming sites. Hope ya dig it <3
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Matthew Leger · EP · 2024 · 5 songs
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Russell Edson ~ Being witless it said no prayer. Being pure it withered like a flower.
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I made a large mistake I left my house I went into the world it was not
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“Is it possible this field is forgotten…?” A poem by Karen Fish.
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“Upon completing Starlite Walker, Silver Jews felt like a band instead of a project. We became formidable.” — Bob Nastanovich Silver Jews debut album, Starlite Walker, was released 31 years ago today ♡
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Charles Simic ~ "The poet is like a mechanic in love with the engine of his car."
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Russell Edson ~ The attention flutters like a moth caught in a room; neither through the window nor into the head of the dreaded self . . . All out there the night . . .
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Poet: Richard Garcia Book: The Flying Garcias (1993)
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thinking of Terence Davies' The Long Day Closes
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Ben Lerner ~ The first gaming system was the domesticated flame.
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David Berman, "Snow" ~ Then we were on the roof of the lake. The ice looked like a photograph of water.
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Helmut Heissenbüttel tr. Michael Hamburger ~ april cryin' cryin'. above how we're accustomed to clouds a heap of broken images
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last months have just been this poem, the everythingoes song and the lego batman quote that goes "losing people is a part of life, but that doesn't mean you stop letting them in" repeating over and over while i learn to accept life slipping through my fingers
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Few things hit quite like the ending of Larry Levis’s “My Story in a Late Style of Fire." A gut punch ~ But I wanted to explain this life to you, even if / I had to become, over the years, someone else to do it.
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