Matthew Whitley

Matthew Whitley is an NYC based writer, poet, and anarchist organizer. His poetry and writing on poetry has appeared in publications like N+1, Translit, Arcade, Vanitas and Ritual and Capital/Wendy's Subway, as well in various academic and artistic venues. His broader writing on politics has been published in venues like the Intercept, the Brooklyn Rail, DUST magazine, and LeftEast. Commune Editions released his chapbook "Do You Like the Word Crisis?" He co-edited the radical literary imprint Cicada Press.

E-mail: whitleyms@proton.me

Articles
“What Liberals Get Wrong About Trump’s Executive Order on Antifa,” The Intercept, 2025
“COVID and the Solidarity Ethos in North and East Syria,” Syrian Democratic Times, 2020
“Against the Odds: A Stable Economy in Syria,” Syrian Democratic Times, 2020
“Solidarity with Antifascists and Across Struggles is Needed Now More than Ever,” Agency, 2020
“Why Mutual Aid? Social Solidarity - Not Charity,” openDemocracy, 2020
“We Are Not in Possession of Power, We Are in Possession of Government: The Long Goodbye of Social Democracy in Latin America,” The Brooklyn Rail, 2017
“Rojava Solidarity NYC - A Conversation,” DUST Magazine, Issue 10, 2016
“These People Live Here, Conceptualism and the New Documentary Poetics” (Russian), Транслит (Translit), 2016
“These People Live Here, Conceptualism and the New Documentary Poetics,” ARCADE (Stanford University Colloquium), 2016
“Brexit in an Obstinate Red,” LeftEast, 2016
“Turkey’s Attack on Rojava - A Threat to Radical Democracy in Mesopotamia,” LeftEast, 2015
“Interview with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge,” New City Reader (New Museum), 2011

Poetry
“Greetings from the Mouth,” Revolutionary Health, Yerevan, Armenia, 2025
“The Phantom of Heilbronn,” Ritual and Capital (Wendy’s Subway), 2020
“Do You Like the Word Crisis?” (Chapbook), Commune Editions, 2018
“January 20th - Day of Patriotic Devotion,” N+1, 2017
“The Brownness of Bread,” Matter, 2016
“Pinocchio Gone Limp” (book), 1:1/Cicada Press, 2013
“sum wandering scenes: fr lm,” Vanitas, 2012
“a mute ballet / a dumb audience,” Gigantic Sequins Vol 2.2, 2011
“crowd at a train station,” Noun/Verb, 2009

Editorial
Cicada Press (Editor)

Conferences
“Red on Red: A Symposium on Post-Socialist Art and Critical Theory,” Yale University, CT, 2016
“Vertical Reach: Political Protest and the Militant Aesthetic Now,” Yale University, CT, 2015

Exhibitions
“Wild Children:” 30th Annual Festival of Alternative Art, Yerevan, Armenia, 2026
“A Barbarian in the Greenroom,” Artspace, New Haven, CT, 2015
“The Conspiracy of Equals,” Station Independent Gallery, New York, NY, 2014
“Circling the Square,” Interference Archive, New York, NY, 2014
“ALL THE BEST PEOPLE,” 1:1, New York, NY, 2013.
Publication reprinted via Cicada Press.
“30 Years of Being Cut Up (Closing),” The Slipper Room, New York, NY.
“Inner Beauty Parlor,” Envoy Enterprises, New York, NY, 2009