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Exploring ties of life in story and experience, Bullhorn High Wire winds its poems with varying rhythm and structure, unhindered or refined for natural need, to capture moment and expectation. The poems elevate conversation into higher realms of hope and purpose like highlighting the wonder of the bedtime routines of the author's children and witnessing the beauty and grace of growing up on the high plains.
Bullhorn High Wire celebrates poetry and invites readers to have fun with it, especially if you think you don't like poetry. The poems are accessible and dense with deeper meaning and often echo the wisdom of great voices while beckoning to true importance. In dealing with abstract themes, many of the poems employ narrative vision to highlight nature and structure in metaphor for the intangible. The throughline of it all is the author's faith.
Matthew Nies was raised on a farm in rural North Dakota. He is the author of the poetry book Sunset Dreams (Resource, 2019). His poetry has appeared in literary journals and anthologies including Plainsong, New English Review, Ancient Paths, and On Second Thought. He attended the University of Jamestown where he studied writing under award-winning author and North Dakota Poet Laureate Larry Woiwode. Nies lives with his family in the Washington, DC area.