My first collection The Red Glass Cat is out and in the world. My second collection of poems, Saturday Night on Earth, is also out in the world. Buy both from me from my Big Cartel Store if you wish to do so. Buy it from the big Borg online book seller if you must. Read about why you should read it in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. Read about how The Red Glass Cat is a Great Summer Read according to Pittsburgh Magazine. Marvel at how The Red Glass Cat has inspired students at Duquesne University and Saint Francis University. I am hoping to have another manuscript together by winter 2022-2023.
In the meanwhile, I am quite bad at remembering to update this page whenever something gets out into the world. However, here are a few select links to my work:
- “Lucky the Wonder Olds” Trailer Park Quarterly. Vol. 17 Summer 2026. https://trailerparkquarterly.com/volume-17/matthew-ussia/
- “It’s Friday at Salem’s Market.” Madswirl. Oct. 10, 2025. https://madswirl.com/poetry/2025/10/its-friday-at-salems-market/
- “The Altoona Curve.” Northern Appalachia Review. Vol.7 No. 1. 90.
- “What Diane Said to Me on my First Day” and “They’re Called the Mill Rats.” Depose: An Anthology of Working Class Solidarity. Ed. Mark Lipman, Vagabond Press, 2026. 226-227.
- “Running Hot,” “Chico,” “Social,” “Chapter Three,” and “Interregnum.” 365 Days: A Poetry Anthology, Vol. 6. Ed. James Benger. 365 Days Poetry. 10, 14, 15, 19, and 27.
- “I Used to Own a Big MotherF*ucking Cadillac.” Trailer Park Quarterly. Vol 16. Summer 2025.
- “Arriving in Westmont.” Keystone Poetry: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania. Ed. Marjorie Maddox and Jerry Wemple. Penn State UP, 2025, 162.
- “Denial of Death No. 99” and “Uncle Carl.” Chiron Review. Issue 137 Summer 2025. 118-119.
- “St. John Minadeo”, “When I Met Phil”, and “I Once Bought an Old House in Greenfield”. The Gulf Tower Forecasts Rain: Pittsburgh Poems. Ed. Doralee Brooks, Mainstreet Rag, 2025.
- “Home Improvement Advice for Anyone Owning a House More Than One Hundred Years Old.” As It Ought to Be Magazine, “Poetry,” April 2025. https://asitoughttobemagazine.com/matthew-ussia-home-improvement-advice-for-anyoneowning-a-house-more-than-one-hundred-years-old/
- “Loretto: The Triggering Town.” Northern Appalachia Review. Vol. 6 p. 1. March 2025
- “Hildy.” MadSwirl. 8 Feb 2025. https://madswirl.com/poetry/2025/02/hildy/
- “Passing Mundy’s Corner,” “Greetings from Pennsylvania,” “The Third Time I Dialed 911 While Naked,” “Independence Day,” and “Sitting in Motor Square Garden the Morning Bart Solaczyk Died.” River Dog Zine, No. 5, 2024
- “Glendale Lake” Pittsburgh Quarterly, November 5, 2024. https://pittsburghquarterly.com/articles/glendale-lake
- “Boys in Bikinis, a Plymouth Satellite, a Moon in the Sky Called the Moon” Yawp, No, 8, October 2024.
- “Boxers”, “Dick Talks to Me About Going to See Death Wish for the First Time”, “When I Learned About Dignity”, “Midwest Summer Travel Tips”, and “The Song ‘Tiger Tank’ by the Band Speedy Ortiz” 365 Days: A Poetry Anthology, Vol. 5. 2025
- “That Night on Wopsy Mountain Overlook” Trailer Park Quarterly, August 2024. https://trailerparkquarterly.com/volume-15/matthew-ussia/
“Paper Mines” and “Steve” North of Oxford, July 2024.
“The Flying Man” Madswirl. 24 June 2024.
“Summer in Greenfield,” Waffles In’caffinated,” and “At the Corner of Tunsall St.” Northern Appalachia Review Vol 5. March 2024.
“What We Have is a Whole Miserable Subculture,” Trailer Park Quarterly Vol 14. Fall 2023
“The Closest I Ever Got to Murdering Someone,” Trailer Park Quarterly Vol 13. Spring 2023
“Man With Gun Man is Bookstore is Not Armed,” Lexicon Fall 2022 and Spring 2023
“Box Seat Video Cresson, PA” and “We Need to Talk About Ohio,” Northern Appalachia Review, Volume 4, Number 1. 2023
“Emily” Voices from the Writer’s Place Audio Book, 2023
“The Game” North of Oxford, October 2022.
“Out to Lunch” and “What Diane Said to Me on My First Day” at Trailer Park Quarterly
“Stepping in Dogshit While Naked at 43″, “Up Yours Robert Hayden”, and “The Gift” at Anti-Heroin Chic
“Happiness is” Voices from the Writers Place: Authors Reading Their Work
“The Responsibility of Intellectuals” Ekphrastic Review: Cristobal Rojas. 19 Jul 2019.
“Leakers: A Covid Poem” The Pandemic Issue #3 North of Oxford 24 Apr 2020.
“At the Moment He was Concieved” Open Mic of the Air Podcast 3 Apr 2020.
John Grochalski’s project Winedrunk Sidewalk: Shipwrecked in Trump Land where the goal is to post a new poem, blog, or work of art every day Trump is President has given a number of my poems a home. Here are some of my contributions: