Middle-America's most engaging authors since 1998.
Middle-America's most engaging authors since 1998.
Matthew Borczon is a poet and artist and retired Navy sailor from Erie Pennsylvania. He has written 18 books of poetry as well as a collection of short stories. Recent titles are Twelve Gauge from Rust Belt Press and Post Deployment from Dumpster Fire Press. Matt publishes widely in the small press and has been nominated for the Pushcart and best of the Net. He is currently a nurse in a Plasma Donation Center when he is not writing. He is married with four children.
Published: 2025
If you’ve ever looked at your neighbors and wondered what was wrong, read this book. These poems are beautiful and terrifying. Coal miners speak like poets, the daughters of union organizers fear getting shot remember their fathers and the bullet holes.
—Dave Newman
Matt Borczon has long-established himself as one of the most engaging poets writing today. While there are glimpses of sweet reminiscence, All the ghosts in my hometown drills down.
—James Benger, author of One Week
Borczon maps the lives of the tender, lost misfits and dreamers. Box-cutter and bullet violent, Borczon’s Erie, Pennsylvania is not one of posh, lakeside yacht clubs and boat drinks. This is a beautiful, longing, heart-rich book about growing up and growing old, and the empathy, understanding, and wisdom only age can bring.
—Lori Jakiela, author of All Skate: True Tales from Middle Life