Matthew Yeager is a poet who grew up in Cincinnati, OH, and has lived in NY since 2002. His first book, Like That, came out in 2016. While at MacDowell, he worked on his new collection of poems. He also planned a book length lyric essay about football, NFL gambling, and his father's head injuries.
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Matthew Yeager
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Region: Queens, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2007, 2011, 2017
Studios
Chapman
Matthew Yeager worked in the Chapman studio.
Chapman Studio was funded by Mrs. Alice Woodrough Chapman in memory of her husband, composer George Alexander Chapman. Symmetrically massed, the building is stuccoed on the exterior with a natural, unpainted cement. Its unusual half-timbered ornament consists of slender, knotty spruce poles painted a dark green color. A central, peak-roofed entrance porch appears on the north side…