tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56993949914665732672012-02-16T14:29:11.809-05:00Matthew Zapruderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04972091934896558684noreply@blogger.comBlogger31100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5699394991466573267.post-66663311944607017722008-12-30T19:45:00.002-05:002008-12-30T19:46:07.252-05:00Click <a href="http://matthewzapruder.wordpress.com">here</a> to go to my new web place. Thanks!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5699394991466573267-6666331194460701772?l=matthewzapruder.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Matthew Zapruderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04972091934896558684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5699394991466573267.post-39806037093384033662008-12-30T13:58:00.003-05:002008-12-30T14:03:00.762-05:00Our new record TWELVE BELLES is available for free download <a href="http://www.thefigmentsrock.com/">here</a>!!<br /><br />I play lead guitar and sing some but not all backup vocals. The songs are written by Thane Thomsen, and feature Trace Meek on bass and Brian Marchese on drums, plus the legendary <a href="http://www.markmulcahy.com">Mark Mulcahy</a> and <a href="http://www.fancytrash.com">Fancy Trash</a>'s Dave Houghton on backup vocals.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5699394991466573267-3980603709338403366?l=matthewzapruder.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Matthew Zapruderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04972091934896558684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5699394991466573267.post-53333990139755665082008-03-22T21:37:00.008-04:002008-12-30T19:50:00.751-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jLqSskcnsaY/R-W2imVFk3I/AAAAAAAAAF8/P_p6KPMghp0/s1600-h/100_0676.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jLqSskcnsaY/R-W2imVFk3I/AAAAAAAAAF8/P_p6KPMghp0/s320/100_0676.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5180747651880424306" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Matthew Zapruder is the author of two collections of poetry: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/American-Linden-Matthew-Zapruder/dp/0971031096/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b/102-3690688-8003361"><span style="font-style: italic;">American Linden</span></a> (Tupelo Press, 2002), and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1556592442/ref=pd_ecc_rvi_1/102-9460900-1493743?%5Fencoding=UTF8"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Pajamaist</span></a> (Copper Canyon, 2006), selected by Tony Hoagland as the winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. He is also co-translator of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Weapon-Selected-Late-Poems/dp/1566892066/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1206331200&amp;sr=1-1"><span style="font-style: italic;">Secret Weapon</span></a>, the final collection by the late Romanian poet Eugen Jebeleanu (Coffee House Press, 2007). German and Slovenian language editions of his poems are forthcoming in 2009 from <a href="http://www.luxbooks.de/luxbooks.americana.html">Luxbooks</a> and Serpa Editions; Luxbooks is also publishing a separate German language graphic novel version of the poem "The Pajamaist."<br /><br />His poems, essays and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in many publications, including <span style="font-style: italic;">The Boston Review</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">New York Quarterly, Fence</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">Alaska Quarterly Review</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">Open City</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">Bomb</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">Harvard Review</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">Paris Review</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">The New Yorker</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">The New Republic.</span> In Fall 2007 he was a Lannan Literary Fellow in Marfa Texas, and he was a recipient in 2008 of a May Sarton prize from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.<br /><br />His collaborative book with painter Chris Uphues, <span style="font-style: italic;">For You in Full Bloom</span>, will be published by <a href="http://pilotpoetry.com/">Pilot Books</a> in 2009 and his third book of poems, <span style="font-style: italic;">Come on All You Ghosts</span>, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon in 2010. He lives in San Francisco, teaches poetry as a member of the permanent faculty of the <a href="http://www.umass.edu/juniperinstitute/">Juniper Summer Writing Institute</a> at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, works as an editor for <a href="http://www.wavepoetry.com/">Wave Books</a>, and teaches in the low residency MFA program at <a href="http://palmdesertmfa.ucr.edu/">UC Riverside-Palm Deser</a><a href="http://palmdesertmfa.ucr.edu/">t</a><br /><br />Contact: mzapruder at yahoo dot com<br /><br />Click <a href="http://matthewzapruder.wordpress.com">here</a> to visit my new web place.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5699394991466573267-5333399013975566508?l=matthewzapruder.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Matthew Zapruderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04972091934896558684noreply@blogger.com