Former Aggie Debuts Poetry Chapbook
USU alum Matthew James Babcock has his first poetry collection published in chapbook March 17, 2016.
Utah State University alum Matthew James Babcock (BA English, 1995) is publishing his first poetry collection in chapbook format with Folded Word in Meredith, New Hampshire. Babcock graduated with honors from USU and is professor of English at BYU-Idaho in Rexburg. His chapbook, Points of Reference, explores themes of family and the landscape of the Rocky Mountain northwest and includes poems that earned him the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Award.
Babcock will also publish his first fiction collection, Future Perfect, with independent Texas publisher Queen’s Ferry Press in October. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize three times and won first prize in Press 53’s fiction contest for his novella He Wanted to Be a Cartoonist for The New Yorker.
Details about the March 17 release of Points of Reference can be found on the Folded Word website.
Contact: Matthew James Babcock, babcockm@byui.edu
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