Small-Town Suicide

Clay Matthews is the author of three collections of poetry, Pretty, Rooster (Cooper Dillon Books, 2010), which is a collection of sonnets written in syllabics; RUNOFF (BlazeVOX, 2009); and Superfecta (Ghost Road Press, 2008). He has published poetry in The American Poetry Review , Black Warrior Review , Hayden’s Ferry Review , Gulf Coast , and elsewhere. Matthews teaches at Tusculum College and edits poetry for The Tusculum Review . Photo by Jan Matthews