Satellite - Softcover

- Rohrer's newest collection, A Green Light, is due out from Verse Press in May 2004, and will generate renewed interest in his backlist. - Rohrer's first collection sold extremely well, and he continues to be one of the most talked-about poets of his generation. - Rohrer is a poetry editor of the highly visible New York magazine Fence.

Matthew Rohrer was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and grew up in Oklahoma. He attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop, University College Dublin, and the University of Michigan, where he won the Avery Hopwood Award for poetry. His first book, A Hummock in the Malookas, was a winner of the National Poetry Series and chosen as a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1995. Mary Oliver called his work "beautiful and disquieting," and Harvard Review notes that his poems are "everywhere marked by freshness and originality." He has appeared on NPR's All Things Considered - The Book Show, and is a poetry editor of Fence.