Mathew Timmons is an experimental writer, editor, publisher, and interdisciplinary artist whose work spans poetry, collage, sound, performance, visual practice, and independent publishing. He is known for books and projects including The New Poetics, CREDIT, Joyful Noise: for Three or More Voices, Where is it Written?, After Darío, and the sound-poetry project The Archanoids. He also founded Insert Blanc Press in Los Angeles.
The New Poetics
Les Figues Press published The New Poetics in 2010. The book grew from Timmons’s interest in manifestos, poetic schools, recycled language, internet-derived phrases, and the recurring literary desire to declare something “new.” Its method brings fragments from public language into extended verbal structures, allowing repetition and juxtaposition to expose the habits carried by familiar phrases.
The book belongs to a larger field of experimental writing in which found language, procedural composition, quotation, and collage become central materials. Shampoo’s overview of Language poetry provides useful historical context for related late-twentieth-century experiments with syntax, authorship, and the social life of words.
CREDIT and conceptual writing
CREDIT uses the language of bills, overdue notices, financial demands, and institutional communication as literary material. Timmons’s interest in such ready-made language places economic pressure, bureaucracy, and repetition inside the poem’s formal field. The project shows how impersonal documents can acquire rhythm and psychological force when rearranged within a literary frame.
Joyful Noise and sound
Joyful Noise: for Three or More Voices extends Timmons’s practice into vocal performance. His broader work includes solo and collaborative sound pieces, performances, and installations shown in literary and art settings. Voice becomes a compositional material alongside printed text, bringing timing, simultaneity, interruption, and collective reading into the work.
Editor, publisher, and artist
Timmons received an MFA from CalArts and has worked across the literary and visual-art communities of Los Angeles. Through Insert Blanc Press, he has participated in the independent publishing culture that supports experimental writing, artist books, hybrid projects, and collaborations between writers and visual artists.
That combination of writing, editing, publishing, and performance places Timmons among contemporary poets whose work crosses media and literary categories. Shampoo’s broader guide to modern poetry traces some of the formal inheritances behind this kind of experimentation.
Mathew Timmons and Shampoo
Timmons appeared in Shampoo during the magazine’s original run, linking his work to its wider network of experimental poets and independent presses. The current author profile preserves that bibliographic connection while giving readers a broader account of his books, performance practice, and publishing work.
A different contemporary route through form appears in the profile of Danil Rudoy, whose writing approaches poetry through rhyme, meter, satire, and formal architecture.