Matt Mitchell is the author of The Neon Hollywood Cowboy (Big Lucks, 2021) and Grown Ocean (word west, 2021).

Other poems on the web by Matt Mitchell:
"Salad Days Are Gone"
"Lay Me on the Table + Put Flowers in My Mouth"
Two poems
"A Portrait [of Another Night in Our Hometown]"
Three poems
"Poem Where the Poet is on Antonio Brown's Side Through All of This"
Two poems
"ben gibbard composes a song for diebenkorn's ocean horizon, oil on canvas, 1959"
Two poems
Two poems
Nine poems
Two poems
"but the wind blew me back via Warren, Ohio in the dead of night"

Matt Mitchell on Twitter.

About The Neon Hollywood Cowboy:

"Matt Mitchell's full-length debut, The Neon Hollywood Cowboy, is this young poet's everything, in all its stickiness, in a darkened theater, with the hype of a summer blockbuster, and you're in the front row with your first love. It is the birth of whatever gods we praise, the attempt of a father preventing a son from losing his manhood only to watch that boy grow purple wings. It's Adam reaching for a gun, Eve placing it back into the soft of a holster, and the silence we sink into afterwards. Reader, this is a book you should hold until you turn off the lights, then sit with its neon glow in your palms."
—Alan Chazaro

"'I have abandoned myself // all over the world,' asserts the speaker in Matt Mitchell's The Neon Hollywood Cowboy. And thus begins an extraordinary collection of poems that take your breath away with each sharp vulnerability it reveals, all while dazzling you with its humor, tenderness, and surprise. These poems are searing reminders of what it means to reclaim a body. Through odes to boys 'the color of August,' Harry Styles' 'schoolboy shorts barely covering [his] thigh tattoos,' and Michael Jordan, leaping from a free throw line, his body 'contorted . . . into a space shuttle,' the world of these poems is vast and full of brilliance. Read this book now."
—Noor Hindi