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the crowning achievement of my writing career is getting
@st_vincent
to say “i would like to go to funkytown” on record. annie also called me her baby boy, which means i am legally no longer allowed to use they/them pronouns
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does anyone else have a band they only like one song by but that song also happens to be one of the greatest things they’ve ever heard
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annie lennox singing nothing compares 2 u and calling for a ceasefire > that album announcement
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if you’re reading this, please don’t watch or read hillbilly elegy. it will only perpetuate the spreading of incorrect & harmful rhetoric about appalachian people, especially the poc in the region. here’s a list of books abt/by appalachian people of color:
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six or seven of the best songs I’ve ever heard are on this record alone
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At Paste today, we crowned
@JasonIsbell
our artist of the year. A few weeks ago, Jason and I caught up about ‘Weathervanes,’ sobriety, finding honesty in songwriting, and much more.
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i am going to throw myself off a fucking cliff
I'm enchanted to share some great news. I've written a new book called "Heartbreak Is The National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music."
It's coming November 12 from
@deystreet
. Hope you enjoy reading and happy Tortured Poets Eve. Long live.
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I’m joining
@PasteMagazine
as an assistant music editor for a while! Looking forward to writing some cool things about some cool people this spring 🤠
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Opening myself up for some pitches for the fall for
@PasteMagazine
! Looking at August and beyond, so hit me up about reviews, lists, features, essays, and anniversary pieces. Let’s do some cool stuff together! Find me: mattmitchell
@pastemagazine
.com
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happy kurt cobain performing in a barney costume in akron, ohio day
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This feels like an opportune time to say that I’ve had three Pinegrove tattoos covered up since college
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at 5 million+ subscribers,
@deadmeatjames
and
@carebecc
are changing horror movie youtube forever. be sure to catch the kill count train before it’s too late. profiling them both for
@PasteMagazine
was such a dream. read here:
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2024 is about big swings, small miracles, and
@vincestaples
becoming the new king of netflix
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PITCH CALL FOR 2024
It’s the new year, and I’m back in search of pitches for
@pastemagazine
’s music section. Particularly, I’m looking for reported pieces on scenes, trends, and any niche stuff that you’re passionate about.
Contact info below ⬇️
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Kirk Douglas is thankfully dead now so here’s a few photos of Natalie Wood & James Dean that I love.
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pre-1900s poetry doesn’t even slap. no one says “wow this hits” after reading lord byron
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submitting a poem to the Paris Review but it’s just the lyrics to She Will Be Loved by Maroon 5
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just got rocked by a $500 dental bill, so please consider hiring me to do some design work for you
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I wrote an essay for
@lithub
about how I pointed my compass towards the 17th episode of Freaks and Geeks, in search of guidance on how to navigate my own queer narrative, because the lack of intersex resources in canonized poetry has routinely failed me:
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My heart is overflowing with joy
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Imagine being a high school student excited to talk to and interview a NYT best-selling author & end up getting humiliated on social media just for simply reaching out. This could’ve just stayed in the DMs. What an unneccessary stunt.
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just signed a book contract, so it’s been an absolute slice today
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I wrote 6500 words about Devo—one of the greatest bands of all time, who also happened to grow up in the same area code as me. So grateful to Jerry Casale for humoring my obsessions for an hour. This is the piece I’ve been waiting five years to write. 🔗⬇️
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the avett brothers did not have to go off like that on “no hard feelings”
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When a lit mag hits you with that 1:30 AM “you up?” acceptance email >>>>>>>
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been sitting on this announcement for a while now: my debut poetry full-length, The Neon Hollywood Cowboy, is coming from Big Lucks next spring! it’s gonna be sick, and i can’t wait to share it with you.
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bob dylan is in the movie buddy
There's already the best Bob Dylan movie. It just doesn't have Bob Dylan in it
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i’ve had a long, complicated relationship with coming out. i don’t like announcing things and prefer to just tell loved ones in confidence. but it’s getting to be too much. please stop misgendering me, especially in regards to my writing. i use they/them pronouns, thanks
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in 6ish months we’ve profiled hozier, wilco, brittany howard, sleater-kinney, noah kahan, kevin abstract, pj harvey, jason isbell, faye webster, adrianne lenker & vince staples
big thing on tierra whack is coming this month. the world is our oyster, digital media will endure
today marks a year as head music editor at paste and i’m quite lucky to still be here and still be writing and still be learning. i get to work with some of the best, kindest people in the biz. all my love to the writers, publicists, bands and readers who make this such a dream
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Thread regarding what’s going on with Adr*it Journal tonight:
CW / sexual assault
Back in September I was alerted by a friend that the journal had published the work of Mark Wagenaar, who has/d an open Title IX case against him, and I subsequently pulled my work from 1/?
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i took over as music editor at paste and everyone has really been so kind about the work i’ve done there thus far
BRAG ABOUT SOMETHING YOU’RE PROUD OF ACCOMPLISHING IN 2023 ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
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I officially finished undergrad today. Now it’s time to keep doing what I’ve been doing: writing poetry from midnight to 4 AM and sleeping in until 2 PM daily
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music criticism is difficult for me bc i think 90% of albums are 9s at minimum
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I want to write a poem about coronavirus but I also don’t want to get bullied by poets with more followers than me who think they have some kind of authority
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very cool waking up to an email this morning that takes you to this Lambda Literary page, where my book is the first book you see on a Most Anticipated Book list. what
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today marks a year as head music editor at paste and i’m quite lucky to still be here and still be writing and still be learning. i get to work with some of the best, kindest people in the biz. all my love to the writers, publicists, bands and readers who make this such a dream
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adrianne and i spoke for a good while about bright future, a record i believe might be the very best one released in my lifetime thus far
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today is International Intersex Day here on earth, and i’m happy to be alive and visible and loved. to celebrate my body’s existence, here’s a poem from The Neon Hollywood Cowboy, due out next spring from
@Big_Lucks
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My first cover story as a Paste editor is on Wednesday (
@Wednesday_Band_
). If you wanna take a super deep dive into what makes these Asheville punks immaculately shred, give this thing a read for them and for me:
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you could’ve told me astro poets wrote this & i’d believe you… i’m tired of hackneyed, watered down politicking buzzword language being used like this & the writers thinking they’re some kind of revolutionary for naming the thing but shucking it bone dry of any meaningful weight
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i wrote a very long essay about the grief that comes while watching the iron claw when your family has a curse of its own. different magnitudes, of course, but the weight of death remains heavy all the same.
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William Carlos Williams before dropping the poem:
I have begun to eat a more diverse range of fruits and veggies since February and excuse me but plums are ELITE, I can't believe I had been sleeping on plums for so long. I need to get into all of the albums, the entire back catalog, the b-sides, the whole thing
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Happy release day to THE NEON HOLLYWOOD COWBOY. As it officially ships out to everyone this week, I remain thankful for all the ways it has helped me relearn how to be alive & be in love with my body. If you bought a copy of the book—thank you for taking a chance on my heart, 1/2
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endless thank yous to everyone who said such kind things today about my writing. it can get pretty lonesome in this business, just writing and publishing into the void and not knowing if anyone is looking at it or not. you’re all great and made me feel so loved
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This morning The National dropped a password-protected video with song snippets and this Frankenstein-esque letter entry, that appears to mention Phoebe Bridgers, Taylor Swift, and Sufjan Stevens. I can’t wait for the new record, I hope it’s their very best
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@HashtagMeg_
@Em__Dash__
A gender neutral deodorant with the longevity of men’s and smell of women’s would be the ultimate super toiletry. I really would love to rock that lavender smell all day.
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🚨 COVER REVEAL 🚨
my second poetry book, VAMPIRE BURRITO, is coming in May from
@grieve_land
. very thankful for
@headabovewater
for writing a little bit about the book.
preorder here:
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in lieu of that notes app mess, here are some poems by palestinian writers that everyone should read ↓
feel free to add more below too, i’ll be doing the same as i think of them
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For the first of two (!) June cover stories over at Paste, we have
@Bully
, who made the best rock record of the year so far. Very grateful to Alicia for being so generous in our conversation + for trusting me with this story.
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it hasn’t quite sunk in just yet that my first profile of 2024 is this cover story on
@PJHarveyUK
, but it’s out now and i couldn’t be more floored
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📣 tNHC COVER REVEAL 📣
beyond fucking thrilled to show you the official cover of THE NEON HOLLYWOOD COWBOY, which will be out in the spring from
@Big_Lucks
. it’s beautiful. it’s here. it’s vintage as all heck.
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John Darnielle looked up a JSTOR article during our interview this morning
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My poetry low of the year: Paying $$$ for a workshop run by a very ILLUSTRIOUS lit mag & not getting a single word of the feedback I was promised from any of the mentors running it.
I can’t believe I paid 3-figures to do college poetry prompts in a group chat.
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having a 2-month-old puppy has reaffirmed my not wanting kids for the foreseeable future
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hey! I’ve got another book coming in 2021 and it’s called GROWN OCEAN and
@wordwestpress
is going to publish it in the fall! the poems in this book mean so much to me, and I can’t wait for y’all to read them.
hi, we’re thrilled to announce the sixth (and final) book in our 2021 chapbook series... we will be publishing
@matt_mitchell48
’s GROWN OCEAN! it’s an amazing collection of poems, electric and beautiful and alive. we’re honored to be able to put it out into the world!
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UPDATE: I received an acceptance from the journal 🥰🥰 beaming with excitement right now!
My submission with my dream journal just switched to in-progress & I’M SCREAMING with fear
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if one person’s Instagram story can cause the entire poetry community on social media to collapse, maybe that community just isn’t all that great to begin with
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have a new poem about unrequited love in
@havehadhavehad
today / many loving thanks to
@danirosepoet
for picking it 💀
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Okay but who wants to do a Hot Ones style interview over zoom where we talk about poetry and other things
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It’s
@jennylewis
szn, y’all! She told me I look like Leo DiCaprio in Basketball Diaries—but we also talked about other things, like shedding grief, Beck’s songwriting camp, the magic of Jon Brion, and the badassery of Kim fucking Deal
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Handwritten lyrics from the Mahall's concert last month. Thank you,
@PinegroveBand
, for making this happen.
#9
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locked the account so i can tell my 3,000 person world that maya hawke called me smart and cool today during our interview and my ego will ride that high until i perish
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you can now officially pre-order THE NEON HOLLYWOOD COWBOY! it’d mean the whole world if you scooped up a copy in support of me and Big Lucks 🥺❤️
The Neon Hollywood Cowboy by Matt Mitchell (
@matt_mitchell48
) is now available for preorder 🤠🥰
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Stoked to announce that my poem “but the wind blew me back via Warren, OH in the dead of night” won 1st place in the Gordon Square Review 2020 poetry contest. Issue coming soon, and I can’t wait to share this ode to my second home with you.
Announcing the winners of our 2020 Spring Poetry Contest for NE Ohio Writers! Winner:
@matt_mitchell48
. Runner-up: Nardine Taleb. Finalists: Tiara Dinevska-McGuire,
@LucasLJorgensen
, Brittany McCauley & Michelle Skupski Bissell. Kisha Nicole Foster judged. Congrats!!
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I’ve got 3 poems in
@hobartpulp
today, including this one, which is a collage of many random notes I had stored on my phone.
Read the rest here:
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I spoke with
@mountain_goats
about his new book, Devil House, and our gravitation towards the glow of mystery for
@lithub
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who am I but a tired machine that breathes, cries, and sends follow-up emails
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Big Instagram account with 300k followers wanted to charge me $150 to promote only 4 of my art pieces. Fuck that. Just gonna share here. DM for a commission, I’d love to do something cool with you.
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today is my 23rd birthday but today is also the 36th birthday of Tom Petty’s Southern Accents album. so I wrote a poem about that, and it’s now my 3rd skull at
@havehadhavehad
🎉🤠
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my last poem of 2020, “I Should Have Never Left the Great Lakes / I Hate This Place,” was published by
@hobartpulp
today <3
read the whole thing here:
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@bigugly
They shouldn’t let 19 year olds have access to tattoo shops when there are twangy bands from Kenyon College on the loose
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I have written 113 interview features on artists this year, with two more on the way before 2023 is over and the biggest cover story of my life thus far ready to hit the first week of January. I wanted to take some time to highlight my favorites.
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i wrote a cover story on sleater-kinney and there is a part where carrie brownstein says squirrely, terse, loquacious, surfy, unhinged, gross, raunchy, grotesque, and disgusting all in one quote.
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