“Matthew Schnirman’s poems combine humor, nostalgia, intimacy, and sex into a voice that’s by turns sardonic and sincere, ironic and heartfelt.” - Kevin Craft, author of Traverse
“Matthew’s work is the pouty, shirtless love child of Frank O’Hara and Lucretius, a smart mouth, a tender heart, and a sparking intellect.” - Michelle Peñaloza, author of All the Words I Can Remember Are Poems
Selected Online Works
Poetry Northwest nominated After June for a Best of the Net award. You can read the first Zac poem I ever wrote, Zac calls this moment the so, along with a personal introduction at Poetry Northwest. Zac breaks with spring sits on a grassy knoll over there at Green Linden Press (save a tree, publish online). This is a friendly weird one: Zac shares an acute observation at The Seattle Review of Books.
Other poems available in print and online at CutBank, PHANTOM, Whiskey Island, HIV Here & Now, and more…
Interviews & Recordings
Seattle Public Library Podcast | 2015 Jack Straw Writers Program
Press & Readings
“Severalty” by Laura Da’ Release Party, The Folio
“All the Words I Can Remember Are Poems” Release Party, CAM
Ucross Reveals Fall 2018 Artists in Residence, The Hollywood Reporter
James Franco Review Release Party, Time Out
Contagious Exchanges: Corinne Manning with Matthew Schnirman, Seattle Gay Scene
The Things They Made (at Hugo House), City Arts