# Farid Matuk
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{{short description|American poet}}
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| occupation = Poet and educator
| language = English and Spanish
| nationality = American
| citizenship = United States
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| notableworks = This Isa Nice Neighborhood, My Daughter La Chola, The Real Horse, Moon Mirrored Indivisible
| awards = Honorable Mention in the 2011 and 2014 Arab American Book Awards, Ford Fellowship and Fulbright Fellowship, United States Artist Fellowship
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'''Farid Matuk''' is an American poet and educator. His Spanish translations have appeared in ''Poetry,'' ''Kenyon Review,'' ''Guernica,'' ''Kadar Koli,'' ''Translation Review'', ''Mandorla'', and ''Bombay Gin''.[{{Cite web |title=Farid Matuk |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/farid-matuk#poet |access-date=2016-07-30 |website=poetryfoundation.org}}] His poems have appeared in ''Denver Quarterly'', ''Flag + Void'', ''Iowa Review'', ''The Paris Review'', ''Lana Turner'', ''Bomb Magazine'', and ''Poetry'' and abroad in ''White Wall Review'' (Canada), ''Critical Quarterly'' (UK), and ''Poem: International English Language Quarterly'' (UK). His book ''This Isa Nice Neighborhood (Letter Machine, 2010)'' was the recipient of an Honorable Mention in the [2011 Arab American Book Awards](/source/Arab_American_Book_Award).[{{Cite web |title=2011 Arab American Book Award Winners |url=http://www.arabamericanmuseum.org/2011.book.award.winners |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171026051905/http://www.arabamericanmuseum.org/2011.book.award.winners |archive-date=2017-10-26 |access-date=2016-07-30 |website=arabamericanmuseum.org}}] and was included in The [Poetry Society of America](/source/Poetry_Society_of_America)'s New American Poets series. ''My Daughter La Chola (Ahsata, 2013)'' received an Honorable Mention in the [2014 Arab American Book Awards](/source/Arab_American_Book_Award).[{{Cite web |title=2014 Arab American Book Award Winners |url=http://www.arabamericanmuseum.org/2014.book.award.winners |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160803193944/http://arabamericanmuseum.org/2014.book.award.winners |archive-date=2016-08-03 |access-date=2016-07-30 |website=arabamericanmuseum.org}}] My Daughter La Chola was also named among the best books of 2013 by ''The Volta'' and by The [Poetry Foundation](/source/Poetry_Foundation) while selections from its pages have been anthologized in ''The Best American Experimental Poetry, 2014'', ''The &Now Awards: The Best Innovative Writing Vol. 3'', and in ''Angels of the Americlypse: An Anthology of New Latino@ Writing''. His poems have also been anthologized in ''Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poems for the Next Generation'' and The [Library of America](/source/Library_of_America)'s ''Latino Poetry''.[{{Cite web |title=Latino Poetry |url=https://www.loa.org/books/latino-poetry/ |access-date=2025-06-28 |website=Library of America |language=en-US}}] Matuk is the recipient of the Fulbright Fellowship the United States Artist Fellowship. The [University of Arizona Press](/source/University_of_Arizona_Press) published his second full-length collection, ''The Real Horse'', in 2018[{{Cite web |date=2017-10-25 |title=Real Horse |url=https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/the-real-horse |access-date=2025-06-28 |website=UAPress |language=en-US}}] and The [University of Chicago Press](/source/University_of_Chicago_Press) will publish his third collection, ''Moon Mirrored Indivisible'', in 2025.[{{Cite book |last=Matuk |first=Farid |url=https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo247589225.html |title=Moon Mirrored Indivisible |publisher=University of Chicago Press |series=Phoenix Poets |location=Chicago, IL |language=en}}]
== Bibliography ==
Matuk, Farid (2006). ''Is It The King?'' Austin: Effing Press.
Matuk, Farid (2010). ''Riverside.'' Green River, Vt.: Longhouse.
Matuk, Farid (2010). ''This Isa Nice Neighborhood.'' Chicago: Letter Machine Editions.
Matuk, Farid (2013). ''My Daughter La Chola.'' Boise: Ahsahta Press.
Matuk, Farid (2018). ''The Real Horse.'' Tucson: The University of Arizona Press.
Herrera, Juan Felipe; Matuk, Farid, Anthony Cody, Carmen Gimenez, Eds. (2022) ''Akrílica.'' Noemi Press.
Otta, Tilsa; Matuk, Farid, Trans. (2024) ''Hormone of Darkness.'' Graywolf Press.
Matuk, Farid (2025). ''Moon Mirrored Indivisible.'' Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
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Category:Hispanic and Latino American poets
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