Matt Daly
Wyoming-based poet, artist and teacher.
Matt Daly
Matt Daly is a Wyoming-based poet, artist and teacher. Primarily working with words, he regularly draws upon the imagery and rhythms of his homeground in the American West. That said, Matt also gravitates toward explorations of new territory and looks forward to those moments when his work takes a turn in an unexpected direction.
morning
walk
by Matt Daly
One great horned owl roosts
on a cottonwood branch.
From the ridge north, another
owl hoots back.
We make what we
make: what fails.
The thing about lasting is how
close we have to come to falling apart.
Bark, feather, dawnslight—
all call out and answer back.
Human Obscura, 2022
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Between Here and Home
MATT DALY
Between Here and Home stitches together a narrative through soliloquies from several inhabitants of an imagined rural valley in the American West. Distance and wind make the fabric thin but not always easy to tear.
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Red State
MATT DALY
Poems by Matt Daly, selected by Dan Vera and Ron Mohring as Number 10 in the Rane Arroyo Chapbook Series.
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Untrapped
MATT DALY, EDITOR
A poetry anthology for Wyoming Untrapped. 2019.