English Department Faculty

Suzanne Matson

Professor

Department

English

Publications

Novels

  • Ultraviolet. Catapult, 2018.
  • The Tree-Sitter. New York: W. W. Norton, 2006.
  • A Trick of Nature. New York: W. W. Norton, 2000.
  • The Hunger Moon. New York: W. W. Norton, July 1997.

Books of Poetry

  • Durable Goods. Cambridge: Alice James Books, 1993.
  • Sea Level. Cambridge: Alice James Books, 1990.

Poetry in Periodicals

  • 鈥淢issionary, 1920,鈥 鈥淲ent into a Bar,鈥 鈥淐elia,鈥 鈥淭o Genda,鈥 鈥淟ittle Deaths,鈥 鈥淐alling Her.鈥澨Re-Markings听special number:听 A World Assembly of Poets 16.4 (November 2017):听 163-66.
  • 鈥淲补迟肠丑.鈥澨73 (11/6/16).
  • 鈥淒ivision Street,鈥 鈥淪tory,鈥 鈥淩ishikesh.鈥 听听(2/27/14).
  • 鈥淔ound Haiku, Missing Beat.鈥 Washington Square Review (winter/spring 2009): 26.
  • 鈥淏irds at Six O鈥機lock鈥; 鈥淔rom SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS鈥; 鈥淩eading Lesson at a Farm Workers鈥 Community School, Woodville, California, 1942.鈥 Kippis! 1:1 (winter 2009): 29-31.
  • 鈥淗oneymoon Snapshot: Diptych.鈥 艾可直播 College Magazine 66.4 (fall 2006): 61.
  • 鈥淢ysore Pantoum,鈥 鈥淏allroom Dancing, A Vision,鈥 鈥淧hotographing Debra.鈥澨
  • Kestrel 18 (2005): 54-58.
  • 鈥淎lligator Country鈥 (reprinted), 鈥淏ackyard Soil, c. 1960,鈥 鈥淩enovation.鈥 Salamander: Then and Now 10th Anniversary Issue 9.1-2 (2003): 134-8.
  • 鈥淒esert Botanical Garden.鈥 Sou鈥檞ester 31.1 (fall 2002): 92.听
  • 鈥淎 Nickel Sun.鈥 New England Review 23.2 (spring 2002): 145.
  • 鈥淯nreasonable Fears.鈥 艾可直播 College Magazine 62.2 (spring 2002): 5.
  • 鈥淐ruelty,鈥 鈥淔lorida Wake.鈥 Seattle Review 20.1 (fall 1998): 117-18.
  • 鈥淔or Frances, Who Can鈥檛 Stop Dreaming of Danger, Even When the Children Are Safe at Home.鈥 Poetry Northwest 38.4 (winter 1997-98): 40.
  • 鈥淣icholas, Refusing to Sleep,鈥 鈥淭hen, Nicholas.鈥 Salamander 4.1 (spring 1996): 7-8.
  • 鈥淟ove Poem.鈥 The Madison Review 17.2 (fall 1995): 54.
  • 鈥淢ilk/Love.鈥 Harvard Review 9 (fall 1995): 88.
  • 鈥淭he Oath of Happiness.鈥 艾可直播 College Magazine 54.4 (fall 1995): 14.
  • 鈥淎lligator Country,鈥 鈥淓legy,鈥 鈥淭his Distance.鈥 Salamander 3.1 (winter 1995): 65-7.
  • 鈥淣ot Talking About God in America.鈥 Red Brick Review 1995: 14.
  • 鈥淧latia Talo,鈥 Wifery.鈥 Berkeley Poetry Review 27 (1993-94): 90-1.
  • 鈥淗ometown.鈥 艾可直播 College Magazine 52.3 (summer 1993): 25.
  • 鈥淔lagstaff.鈥 Harvard Review 4 (spring 1993): 36-7.
  • 鈥淭he Wreck of Days.鈥 Indiana Review 16.1 (spring 1993): 186-90.
  • 鈥淐afe.鈥 Sou鈥檞ester 20.3 (winter 1993): 29.
  • 鈥淔arm Animals.鈥 Christian Science Monitor 85.62 (25 February 1993): 16.
  • 鈥淭he Beach.鈥 Sojourner 18.1 (Sept. 1992): 37.
  • 鈥淲orry.鈥 Sojourner 17.12 (Aug. 1992): 6B.
  • 鈥淕reek.鈥 Shenandoah 42.2 (summer 1992): 85.
  • 鈥淧etty Crime.鈥 Dominion Review 10 (spring 1992): 22.
  • 鈥淲oman with Distaff.鈥 Iris 24 (fall-winter 1990): c. 1989): 25.
  • 鈥淓legy for Neil.鈥 Southern Poetry Review 29.2 (fall 1989): 23.
  • 鈥淒ebussy,鈥 鈥淭here Was a Temporary Accident.鈥 The American Poetry Review 17.2 (Mar.-Apr. 1988): 21.
  • 鈥淭he Artist and His Model,鈥 鈥淭he Bohemian Wedding,鈥 鈥淭he Wound-up Girl
  • Ice Skater.鈥 Fine Madness 3.2 (fall 1986): 6-9.
  • 鈥淚n Rovaniemi, Finland.鈥 Poetry Northwest 27.1 (spring 1986): 11-12.
  • 鈥淐oyotes,鈥 鈥淟etters,鈥 鈥淭ravelers.鈥 The Seattle Review 9.1 (spring 1986): 听79-82.
  • 鈥淐entralia Stop,鈥 鈥淛ackson County Census.鈥 The Seattle Review 7.1 (spring 1984): 17-18.
  • 鈥淎fter 鈥楥harming,鈥欌 鈥淭he Sunbather,鈥 鈥淭he Sunday Drunk.鈥 Poetry 142.2 (May 1983): 90-3.
  • 鈥淔ossils,鈥 鈥淟eaving Garibaldi.鈥 Poetry Northwest 23.4 (winter 1982-83): 听39-41.
  • 鈥淟ove in the Coal Mine,鈥 鈥淪cotch Coulee,鈥 鈥淣ewspaper Pictures out of Poland,鈥
  • 鈥淲idow Aunts.鈥 Poetry Northwest 23.2 (summer 1982): 26-9.

Anthologized Work

  • 鈥淧ie.鈥 Ed. Ladette Randolph.听Ploughshares Solos Omnibus: Volume 3. 艾可直播: Ploughshares, 2015. 1-31.
  • 鈥淥ne night.鈥 Ed. Alice Hoffman.听40 Women, 40 Words: For the Anniversary of Rosie鈥檚 Place. 艾可直播: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014. 44.
  • 鈥淐oyotes,鈥 鈥淚n Rovaniemi, Finland, Twenty-fifth Birthday,鈥 鈥淣ight Fishing,鈥 鈥淭he Beach,鈥 鈥淔ather鈥檚 Day,鈥 鈥淪tubbornness,鈥 鈥淒urable Goods鈥 (poems); 鈥淧ersephone at Boylston鈥 (story). Finnish-North American Literature in English: A Concise Anthology. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen P, 2009. 531-51.
  • 鈥淟ove in the Coal Mine.鈥 Coal: A Poetry Anthology. Ashland, KY: Blair Mountain Press, 2006. 143.
  • 鈥淲orry,鈥 鈥淭he Beach.鈥 Sojourner: A Feminist Anthology. Urbana: U of Illinois Press, 2004. 113-14.
  • 鈥淭he Wound-up Girl Ice Skater,鈥 鈥淭he Bohemian Wedding.鈥 March Hares: 听The Best Poems from Fine Madness, 1982-2002. Seattle, WA: Fine Madness, 2002. 242-244.
  • 鈥淔irst Words.鈥 The Fruitful Branch: 21 Brookline Authors on Literature, Libraries, Life. Brookline, MA: Brookline Library Foundation, 2002. 67.
  • 鈥淪cotch Coulee.鈥 Red, White and a Paler Shade of Blue: Poems on the Finnish-American Experience. Rhinelander, WI: Tamarack Publishing Co., 1996. 26-27.
  • 鈥淭he Regulars,鈥 鈥淲ifery.鈥 For a Living: The Poetry of Work (companion anthology to Working Classics). Urbana: U of Illinois Press, 1995. 256-8.
  • 鈥淟ove in the Coal Mine.鈥 Working Classics: Poems on Industrial Life. Urbana: U of Illinois Press, 1990. 160.
  • 鈥淭he Sunday Drunk.鈥 Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry. Beverly Hills, CA: Monitor Book Co., 1984. 301.

Nonfiction Essays

  • 鈥,鈥 in 鈥淭ies,鈥澨New York Times, Nov. 23, 2018.
  • "For parents, gridiron isn鈥檛 just fun and games.鈥 The 艾可直播 Globe Oct. 31, 2009: A11.
  • "Prospects.鈥 艾可直播 College Magazine 68:3 (Summer 2008): 50-1.
  • "Fellow Workers. . . .鈥 The Seattle Times June 27, 2005: B5.
  • 鈥淎 Thank-You Note.鈥 Child February 2000: 104.
  • 鈥淟ove Among the Ruins.鈥 Child February 1999: 111-12.
  • 鈥淒ays Like These.鈥 Child August 1998: 19.
  • 鈥淢ilestones.鈥 Child May 1998: 119. 听听
  • 鈥淲hen Nick Met Henry.鈥 Child Dec.-Jan. 1998: 151-2.
  • 鈥淗e鈥檚 Not Heavy, He鈥檚 My Baby.鈥 New York Times Magazine Jan. 12, 1997: 听54.

Short Fiction

  • 鈥淐onvention Center,鈥澨Harvard Review听48: (Dec 2015).
  • 鈥淢anger,鈥澨online (9/4/2015); in print听Pangyrus 2.
  • 鈥淧ie,鈥澨听3:1 (August 27, 2014).
  • 鈥淵our Best Yet,鈥澨Harvard Review听45: 92-108 (May 2014).
  • 鈥淏oys鈥 Choir.鈥澨Carolina Quarterly听62.3 (winter 2012):听 60-5.
  • 鈥淯ltraviolet.鈥澨听(June 2012).
  • 鈥淧ersephone at Boylston.鈥 艾可直播NOW 1.5-1.11 (April 23-May 1, 2007), serialized in seven installments.

Column

  • 鈥淒isquieting Muses: The Politics/Poetics of Looking.鈥 Harvard Review 7 (fall 1994): 125-8.
  • 鈥淒isquieting Muses: Mnemosyne.鈥 Harvard Review 5 (fall 1993): 20-2.
  • 鈥淒isquieting Muses: Sylvia Plath and the Problem of Relation.鈥 Harvard Review 4 (spring 1993): 32-5.

Articles in Books

  • 鈥淏irth Metaphors in Three American Women Poets.鈥 Commonwealth and American Women鈥檚 Discourse: Essays in Criticism. Ed. A. L. McLeod. New Delhi: Sterling Press, 1996. 268-277.
  • 鈥淥n Reclaiming the Universal.鈥 Where We Stand: Women Poets on Literary Tradition. Ed. Sharon Bryan. NY: W. W. Norton, 1993. 118-124.

Articles in Journals

  • 鈥淭he Liberty Committee: Finns, Sedition, and Montana Vigilantes during World War I.鈥 Journal of Finnish Studies 13:1 (summer 2009): 67-74.
  • 鈥淪trange Cities.鈥 Harvard Review 13 (fall 1997): 47-50. A special issue devoted to the poetry of Charles Simic.
  • 鈥溾榃ithout Relation鈥: Family and Freedom in the Poetry of Louise Gl眉ck.鈥 The Mid-American Review 14.2 (1994): 88-109.
  • 鈥淔lowery Codes: Sandra McPherson鈥檚 Poetics of Gender and Naturalism.鈥 Denver Quarterly 28.2 (fall 1993): 86-92 .
  • 鈥淥n Reclaiming the Universal.鈥 River City 13.2 (spring 1993): 118-124.
  • 鈥淧lease Don鈥檛 Call it the New Confessionalism.鈥 Harvard Review 2 (fall 1992): 164-66.
  • 鈥淭alking to Our Father: The Political and Mythical Appropriations of Adrienne Rich and Sharon Olds.鈥 The American Poetry Review 18.6 听(Nov.-Dec. 1989): 35-41.