Matthew Charles Zhao

Poetry

• “The Queen’s Gambit” – The Shade Journal, September 3, 2026
• “Ode to My First Sectional” — Solstice, Summer 2026
• “I Need to Do Homework” — Little Patuxent Review, No. 40
• “Ode to the Blankie Lost Forever” — The Louisville Review, No. 98
  “What to Eat?” — Grub Street, Vol. 75 & Online Exclusive
• “Attachment Style” — Crab Orchard Review, Vol. 27, No. 2
• “Name Him” — Gordon Square Review, No. 17
• “Long Live the Queen” — Pangyrus, May 10, 2026
• “Sitting Pretty in a Sestina” — Reed Magazine, No. 159 Online Exclusive
  “Gift of God” — The Offing, April 15, 2026
  “Will He Hear the Orchestra?” — The Westchester Review, Spring 2026
  “I’ll Stay Up Until Dawn” — PRISM international, Vol. 64, No. 1
• “Bible City, USA” — Pinch, Vol. 46, No. 1
• “She Gives and She Takes” — Midway Journal, Vol. 20, No. 2
• “Line of Men” — Hole in the Head Review, Spring 2026
  “I Don’t Put Entourage in the Title” — Hobart, February 13, 2026
• “Can You Blame Him?” — South Florida Poetry Journal, No. 40
  “Race Home” — The Summerset Review, Winter 2026
• “A Myth of Permanence” — Good River Review, No. 10
• Two Poems — Diode Poetry Journal, Vol. 18, No. 3
  “Chanson for My Father” — Stirring, Vol. 27, No. 4
• “The Golden Prince Returns” – BoomerLitMag, Vol. 8, No. 4
  Two Poems — Santa Barbara Literary Journal, Vol. 12
• “An Addict’s Plan for Surviving the Darkness” — Ibbetson Street, No. 57
• “Mother Carries It All” — The Indianapolis Review, No. 33
  Five Poems — Impossible Task, June 6, 2025
  “We Are All Named After Someone” — Four Way Review, No. 32
  “King of Song” — swamp pink, No. 17
• “Da Capo al Fine” — Mississippi Review, Vol. 52, No. 1 & 2
• “Toast the Holy Spirit” — Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Vol. 10
• “The Ids of March” — Best New Poets 2026, forthcoming
• “Reaching for Nirvana” — I-70 Review, forthcoming
• “A Guide to Falling Asleep” & “iPod Touch User Manual” — Sweet, forthcoming
• “Chow Time” — Grain, forthcoming
• “Chinese Idioms” — The Florida Review, forthcoming
• “Poetry is the Opposite of Suicide” — Bear Review, forthcoming
  “Calendar Year, 1963” — Booth, forthcoming
  “All I Want for Christmas” — South Carolina Review, forthcoming
  “The Dragon Warrior Among Us” — Sugar House Review, forthcoming
  “Midnight Flight” — Frontier Poetry, forthcoming

Nonfiction

• “Two Years in Two Days” — New Ohio Review, forthcoming

Book Reviews

• “A Glass of Milk for Our Collective Gall” — Heavy Feather Review
• “A Splice of Life” — Atlanta Review, forthcoming