Matt Morton is the author of Improvisation Without Accompaniment (BOA Editions 2020), winner of the 2018 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. He has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fulbright Program, and his poems appear in AGNI, Gettysburg Review, Harvard Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. He holds a PhD in English from the University of North Texas and serves as associate editor for 32 Poems.

Other poems by Matt Morton in Verse Daily:
March 11, 2016:   "The Idea" "Attend to what melts: what redly blooms, then wilts...."

Books by Matt Morton:

Other poems on the web by Matt Morton:
Two poems
Three poems
"Loomings No Longer"
"Spring Bulletin"
Three poems

Matt Morton's Website.

About Improvisation Without Accompaniment:

"What follows are poems of arresting insight and stark assurance. What follows are the agile lines of someone who has mastered the sudden slap, the hushed lyric."
—Patricia Smith

"What stands in the back of Matt Morton's beautiful and disturbing Improvisation Without Accompaniment is a persistent emotional attachment to literary and religious traditions in which the speaker of these poems intellectually disbelieves. Familial trauma and a foundering romance become occasions for a book-length compelling meditation on our particular moment in history, on the enduring value of person-to-person connection in a world whose ever-accelerating pace of change complicates and deepens the very needs it promises to satisfy."
—Alan Shapiro

"Matt Morton must not have gotten the memo that American poetry is in an extinction event. These are poems of immense intelligence and presence as nimble as flames conveying the nearly unbearable intimacy this life demands, threatens and rewards us with."
—Dean Young