POETRY Obey me and you’ll be the martyr / Jesus imagined: Messiah-skinned
Gift of God
Matthew Zhao
Matthew Zhao is a poet from Michigan, now a PhD student at Florida State University and an Assistant Editor of Poetry for Southeast Review. He was a finalist in the National Poetry Series and Mississippi Review Prize, and a semifinalist in the Word Works Washington Prize, Longleaf Press Book Prize, Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, and Autumn House Press Poetry Prize. His poems appear or are forthcoming in swamp pink, Four Way Review, Frontier Poetry, The Summerset Review, The Indianapolis Review, Shade Journal, Ibbetson Street, BoomerLitMag, PRISM international, Diode Poetry Journal, Good River Review, Pinch, The Louisville Review, and elsewhere.
