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Joseph Matick is an American Poet, but he does not know what that means. He grew up on a farm in small town America and did not know what it meant then. He attended primary and secondary school and moved to Chicago and had not found himself American. Thinking perhaps to be “American” meant to live elsewhere, he relocated to Paris and London, where he lived for one year each...to no conclusion. He was in American musical bands and performed American music and was in American magazines. He attended Journalism School at the Ernie Pyle School of Journalism and later, the Jack Kerouac School for Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, not looking for and not finding himself American.
He is the founder of the performance arts collective known unofficially as “Sundays” as well as its online constituent, “The Sunday Channel.”
His first book was released on Far West Press in July 2021. Printed in American English.
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Addendum to pre-existing Far West Biography
Joseph Matick is currently on a plane. He’s always on a plane, though rarely is he letting me write his biography. Willie, if we could just tack this on the end that would be great. He is currently tired and traveling and very excited to be able to talk to almost anyone in public. But there’s only a few who he knows very well and a few who know him well. The stewardess just asked what he wanted from the beverage cart. He said sprite. Anything to “make his head feel better.” She said, “so sugar or a kiss?” I said I just wanted to be cuddled by my mom and everyone laughed. He has accolades and accomplishments though at the moment, he can only think of people he admires and to name a few there’s Kate and Harmony and Alex and his son. That’s the only thing really. It’s why he’s on the plane. And it’s why the book he just wrote is any good.
It comes out in two weeks and the plane will have landed and you’ll have slept like a baby in your mothers arms, Roy Orbison will be playing through a CB somewhere and the stewardess will be in the kissing booth and my headache will be gone. Because this book will be released. It is his fourth book. And his life got considerably more “stable” and “successful” and excelled by any number of American metrics. The book is Cherry Wagon. And the date of publication; September 27th. You can buy it here. It’s something you can read really fast. So don’t be intimidated by the fact it is called a “book.” Or if someone you respect has a copy. There’s nothing really to share about it all. It’s for you. The whole damn thing is for you.
Joseph has been host to the improvisational and poetic night, known informally as “Sundays.” The physician constituent and office known as “Sundaylands” exists.
Biography written by Jack Cardigan, October 22nd, 2022