Matthew Isaac Sobin
Author of the science fiction novella The Last Machine in the Solar System. Poems in various places. Sometimes teaching, sometimes selling books at Books on B in Hayward, CA. linktr.ee/matthewisaacsobin
- New poem at Wild Roof Journal alongside many writers thinking deeply about ecologies. Thank you to inspirations large and small: bird voices, mountains, Community of Writers, deer families, unpaved roads, the mountain lion that said hello mid-draft. Thank you Aaron Lelito for including my work!
- Congratulations to our Issue 32 contributors! Check it out: wildroofjournal.com/issue-32
- New poem in issue 39 of @soflopojo.bsky.social.
- A special thank you to lovely new poet friends who lifted the poem up in Olympic Valley @communityofwriters.bsky.social, hours after it was written. To the 8 am hike crew, that stopped at each new wildflower patch for pictures. And to everyone who has touched it so thoughtfully since.
- You can listen to my reading on the website, and read through a trove of wonderful new poems. Thank you Michael Mackin O'Mara for publishing. www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com
- Reposted by Matthew Isaac SobinNovember-Issue 39 online now & we're reading for February-Issue 40 www.southfloridapoetyjournal.com
- Reposted by Matthew Isaac SobinNovember Issue #39 online now www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com
- Reposted by Matthew Isaac Sobin~ Coming Soon ~ On November 1, submissions will open for ONE ART's In a Nutshell: An Anthology of Micro-poems, Guest Edited by Julia Caroline Knowlton duotrope.com/anthology/in...
- A little late posting... Very happy to have a new poem in ONE ART. This poem took a while to write, and it took longer to be in a place where I was able to write it. Big thanks to Mark Danowsky for publishing.
- Before the Eulogy by Matthew Isaac Sobin in ONE ART: a journal of poetry oneartpoetry.com/2025/10/02/b...
- Reposted by Matthew Isaac SobinLove reading litmag's nominations for awards. Congrats to @mdaltoneloy.bsky.social @crankypacifist.bsky.social @bringonthelucie.bsky.social @matthewisaacsobin.bsky.social @sansromeo.bsky.social 🎊🎉 www.stanchionzine.com/post/stanchi...
- New poem about some recent experiences at school, at the bookstore, at a protest, out today in cataloguing poetry magazine by editor john compton. Head over to the journal’s Substack to catch up on all the great work recently published. cataloguingpoetrymagazine.substack.com
- Reposted by Matthew Isaac SobinThis is going to be one hell of a reading, book launch & zoom party on Tuesday night. Have you registered yet to celebrate @writesloud.bsky.social ? Tinyurl.com/FirstKickingThenNot
- Reposted by Matthew Isaac SobinHere's one final sneak peek inside Issue 19's 92 pages. I could use a few more orders of it, in case you've got cash to burn on something real, reliable, resplendent. Here's the opening 12 lines of @glowyaquarius.bsky.social's ANTI-ODE TO GIRLHOOD. What a brilliant, blistering poem this is.
- Reposted by Matthew Isaac SobinWelcome to Flight: a Literary Sampler! We’re a literary journal, publishing four interconnected pieces in each edition. You can learn more about us at our website: flight-literary.ghost.io
- So stoked to receive a nomination for Best of the Net ! a poem about my eighth grade students, a tsunami warning, and an endangered fish... Thanks to Jeff at @stanchion.bsky.social for the deep care shown to this poem, and all the writing they receive!
- For the 1st time ever, I've been able to nominate for Best of the Net. And so I have. Congratulations to @crankypacifist.bsky.social @matthewisaacsobin.bsky.social @bringonthelucie.bsky.social & @mdaltoneloy.bsky.social. Please give these beauties a read. www.stanchionzine.com/post/stanchi...
- June 28 was three years since my dad passed from ALS. Blue Bodies is available as a free PDF from @ghostcitypress.bsky.social. If you’re able, there's a donate button. Funds go to ALS United Greater NY—an org that supports families (they were a life raft for us) and also contributes to med research.
- BLUE BODIES by Matthew Isaac Sobin (@matthewisaacsobin.bsky.social) is out today as part of the 2025 Summer Series! Download your free copy here: ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...
- Always exciting to see The Last Machine in the Solar System being read in the world more than eight years since publication. Even more thrilling, and an honor, when those people are teachers overseas sharing the story with their students.
- Reposted by Matthew Isaac SobinTHIGMONASTY by Elizabeth Joy Levinson is out today as part of the 2025 Summer Series! Download your free copy here: ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...
- Reposted by Matthew Isaac SobinStanchion opens in 4 hours. Closes in 28. Let's make Issue 19.
- Reposted by Matthew Isaac SobinI am not a soldier but I put my fatigues on in blue-milk light under pine shadow I am tired of carrying what a soldier left behind // a father poem from Larks (@ohiounivpress.bsky.social)
- Reposted by Matthew Isaac Sobin“You use your mind like a millstone […!]” Marianne Moore’s “TO MILITARY PROGRESS,” for today’s military march #poetry
- Stoked to be part of this lineup! Microchap incoming this summer!
- Reposted by Matthew Isaac Sobin“we sat on the curb at the cathedral’s foot and spoke softly about disasters…” Adam Zagajewski, translated by Clare Cavanaugh from his book “Eternal Enemies”
- Reposted by Matthew Isaac Sobin#booksky @matthewisaacsobin.bsky.social can’t wait to read it! I think it got here very quickly!
- Reposted by Matthew Isaac SobinJust heard about the passing of Jack Katz. Not many know his work, but they should. His graphic novel series The First Kingdom is the epitome of what would be defined as epic. An inspirational epic in highly ambitious terms of scope and illustrative power.
- Jack Katz of The First Kingdom fame, passed away last week at the age of 97: www.tcj.com/jack-katz-19...
- Will miss you, my friend. Jack Katz was an absolute one of one. A Golden Age of comics legend -- If you've ever enjoyed a graphic novel, he's the most important person you've never heard of, innovating a new genre in the 70s with his groundbreaking The First Kingdom. May your art live on and on.
- If you'd like to read more about Jack's remarkable life and career: www.tcj.com/jack-katz-19...
- Happy to have these two poems — a dad poem, a dance poem — side by side in @oneart.bsky.social. And sharing space with Gary Soto, how cool!
- Today in ONE ART, we feature poems by Gary Soto & Matthew Isaac Sobin oneartpoetry.com
- Reposted by Matthew Isaac SobinTwo Poems by Matthew Isaac Sobin oneartpoetry.com/2025/04/21/t...
- New poem! Middle schoolers, a quake, a pupfish! Thrilled it found a home @stanchion.bsky.social
- "A body’s response reminds us where to find good citizens who worry from love." Read the new Elegant Variation from @matthewisaacsobin.bsky.social! www.stanchionzine.com/post/we-pani...
- Reposted by Matthew Isaac SobinPoignant and skillful, must-read by @matthewisaacsobin.bsky.social featured in @stanchion.bsky.social.
- "A body’s response reminds us where to find good citizens who worry from love." Read the new Elegant Variation from @matthewisaacsobin.bsky.social! www.stanchionzine.com/post/we-pani...
- Excited to share this poem about my middle schoolers, a quake, and a fish!
- New Elegant Variation in the morning from @matthewisaacsobin.bsky.social!! www.stanchionzine.com/elegantvaria...
- Loved this collection. A captivating journey filled with surprises and unique voices. Highly recommend.
- Reposted by Matthew Isaac SobinTake a look at one of the photographs inside Issue 18. Please consider pre-ordering a copy while on sale. It's pretty great and it'll be in your hands at the end of April. Thank you 🖤🤍 www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
- Reposted by Matthew Isaac SobinNEW POEM #216: "Ghazal for Missing Snow" by Sarah Mills (@sarahmillswrites.bsky.social) "I ask the postal clerk how long it will take happiness to arrive / in my mailbox. She sells me insurance, offers to expedite snow." stonecirclereview.com/ghazal-for-m... #Poem #PoetryCommunity #Poetry
- Reposted by Matthew Isaac SobinJenny Irish in HATCH 💙
- Reposted by Matthew Isaac SobinStone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem : "Grief Poems & Love Poems" by Matthew Isaac Sobin (@matthewisaacsobin.bsky.social) #TBT stonecirclereview.com/grief-poems-...
- So proud of this little poem. Many many wonderful poems to read in the @stonecirclereview.bsky.social archive. Love the random poem feature. Go on an adventure.
- Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem : "Grief Poems & Love Poems" by Matthew Isaac Sobin (@matthewisaacsobin.bsky.social) #TBT stonecirclereview.com/grief-poems-...
- Reposted by Matthew Isaac SobinA poem from LARKS (winner of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize) by @hanvanderhart.bsky.social—such a beautiful and devastating collection filled with witness, grace, and resilience. I cannot recommend this collection enough. Will be sharing more. 💙
- Reposted by Matthew Isaac SobinI used to get nervous seeing this poem on X. Someone would always troll it, remarking that I didn't have a handle of English grammar. I grew up speaking Romanian at home and French in school. I transferred to an American school in 9th grade & promptly failed every grammar unit. Thank you, Jad.
- A poem I return to often, by @mayacpopa.bsky.social.
- Hey @toddedillard.bsky.social thanks for classing up our poetry section at @booksonb.bsky.social — now we’re sparkling.
- Thrilled Old Friends at 5 PM is out in the world! So excited to read this Hog cover to cover.
- Reposted by Matthew Isaac SobinA few pics from the Hog Issue Two. Take a look at those contents pages. We have some incredible treats ahead of us!
- Stoked that @stanchion.bsky.social, a dream journal, is my first acceptance of 2025, for the brand new Elegant Variations weekly feature! Cheers EIC Jeff for all he does for the community. I know my writing is in the best of hands. An aside, this was by far the quickest I've been paid for a poem.
- Reposted by Matthew Isaac SobinContributor features from ballast 3.1 continues! Here’s Michael Robins, from “In the Meantime” www.ballastjournal.com/michael-robins #contributorfeature #poetry #ballast #michaelrobins
- Reposted by Matthew Isaac SobinGrateful to find these poems posted from before I was on here, so bear with me for reposting ✨
- Reposted by Matthew Isaac SobinContributor feature from ballast 3.1 Here’s Matthew Isaac Sobin’s “Every Time We Visited Whole Foods You Asked If I Wanted to Buy National Geographic” @matthewisaacsobin.bsky.social www.ballastjournal.com/matthew-isaa... #contributorfeature #poetry #ballast #MatthewIsaacSobin
- Fully embracing my zombie era. Cheers @poet_johncompton @ghostcitypress.bsky.social for embracing this one!
- At long last, the January 2025 issue of Ghost City Review is now up online! Thank you so much to our contributors for all this beautiful work. Hope you enjoy! ghostcitypress.com/january-2025-1
- Reposted by Matthew Isaac SobinBoth the poems featured by Rattle and The Slowdown today were special: www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2025...
- Reposted by Matthew Isaac SobinWe were so lucky to publish @sdeflitchy.bsky.social in issue 1 of Hog River Press. You can read the rest of the issue here: www.hogriverpress.com/current-issue
- Reposted by Matthew Isaac SobinSUBMIT SUBMIT SUBMIT!
- Reposted by Matthew Isaac SobinWeird & wonderful, three sharp, tiny #poems from Matthew Isaac Sobin, new for January: www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/matth... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
- Reposted by Matthew Isaac SobinNEW POEM #128: "Grief Poems & Love Poems" by Matthew Isaac Sobin "You have to be so vigilant around a poet, lest they transmute your grief; / seize the narrowest slice of life & blow it up into a world." stonecirclereview.com/grief-poems-...
- Reposted by Matthew Isaac SobinHappy Valentine's Day!❤️What better way to celebrate than a poem about the romantic city of Venice? How about a poem about a not so romantic Venice? "I Don’t Have a Gondola or An Oar or Money to Pay a Gondolier" by Matthew Isaac Sobin. Look for it Sunday!
- Reposted by Matthew Isaac SobinEver had been lost while traveling? In a foreign country where you don't really speak the language? I haven't, but I imagine this is how I might feel if I did. Check out "I Don’t Have a Gondola or An Oar or Money to Pay a Gondolier" by Matthew Isaac Sobin. www.roifaineantpress.com/post/i-don-t...
