Matthew Zapruder, born in in Washington, DC, is the author of six poetry collections, including I Love Hearing Your Dreams (Scribner, 2024) and Come On All You Ghosts, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, as well as two books of prose: Why Poetry and Story of a Poem (Unnamed, 2023). Zapruder teaches in the MFA program at St. Mary’s College in Moraga and lives in San Francisco.


Photo credit: B.A. Van Sise

Three Poems

by Matthew Zapruder


Poem for Americans

When I go to the bank
California mild afternoon
fills my frame
hollow with desire
to formally say
American brothers and sisters
let us look up
from our screens.

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