Poems

“Self-Portrait: Robert Cornelius, 1839” in The Inflectionist Review. August 2022.

“Testimony” in Ecotone. April 2022.

“The Crickets” and “Still Life” in The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review. March 2022.

“Taliesin” in The Rupture. June 2021.

“Murmurs” and “Epitaph” in December. Spring/Summer 2019.

“Singing Saw” and “Hic abundant lupi” in Nimrod. Fall/Winter 2018.

“Interview” in Grist. Winter 2018.

“Mosaic Floor Depicting the Abduction of Persephone,” “3 Lanterns,” and “Motion Studies” in Mid-American Review. Winter 2017.

“Pastorals” in Third Coast. Winter 2017.

“Epithalamion” in Appalachian Review. Spring 2016.

“Aubade” in Epoch. Summer 2016.

“Midas” in Memorious. Winter 2016.

“Reckoned” in The Southern Review. Spring 2016.

“To Memory” and “A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of California” in Nimrod. Spring 2017.

“Helen in America” in Fugue. Fall 2015.

“Lacuna” and “Catalogue” in Iron Horse Literary Review. Spring 2015.

“A Halo and Some Doves” in Letters. Spring 2015.

“Aristaeus, bildungsroman” in Newfound. Winter 2014.

“Malacasoma” in Cheat River Review. Fall 2014.

“Pankration” in Action, Yes Online Quarterly. Fall 2012.

“Suppliant at Delphi” in Inertia Magazine. Summer 2012.

“They do move” in Emrys Journal, Spring 2012.

“Ludlow” in Barely South Review, Spring 2012.

“Vespers” in The Susquehanna Review, Spring 2012.

“Australis” in Precipitate, Winter 2010.

Book Reviews

Stay, Illusion by Lucie Brock-Broido in Meridian 32.1, Spring 2014.

Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels by Kevin Young in The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, #37 (2011).

Sestets by Charles Wright in The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, #36 (2010).

Reporting

“The True Cost of Cheap Clothing” in Virginia Quarterly Review. Spring 2014.

“Coachella 2012: Adventures of a Festival Virgin,” Prefix Magazine. April 23, 2012.

Matt MacFarland is from central Virginia. He is a graduate of Hampden-Sydney College, a small liberal arts school, where he studied English and Classics and developed an obsession with the Orpheus myth.

After graduating, Matt lived near and in Los Angeles, where he worked as a business research editor and analyst. For a while there he wrote album reviews and features for Prefix, an online music magazine.

In 2013, he moved back east to attend the MFA program at the University of Virginia. He taught introduction to poetry classes and was an editorial assistant on the staff of VQR. His first manuscript, Singing Saw, was his thesis. He graduated in May 2015.

He lives in Charlottesville, VA, with his wife, the poet Sarah Crossland.

macfarlandm[at]gmail[dotcom]

@me_macfarland