Mathew Clouser is a poet and bon vivant. His works include Dereliction Omnibus, and the forthcoming Who Do You Think Works Here? He has worked in varying editorial capacities at The Rio Review and DUENDE. He lives in Austin, Texas where he is a volunteer with Chicon Street Poets. Take a listen as we discuss his recent thesis on mischief in poetics, the world of Pataphysics (to understand it is to misunderstand it), the evolution of language and form, and the perpetual abstract world. “Is a tree weird in the forest if no one is there to see it?” -Mathew Clouser, The Hearsay Poetry Podcast.

Referenced Literature:

Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde
Pataphysics: A Useless Guide, Andrew Hugill
Zong!, M. NourbeSe Philip

Mat can be found canoodling with the Bookhouse Boys collective, and on-line @sumocartwheel.