About

Matt Wedlock

Born in Massachusetts, within the Bridgewater Triangle, in 1984, Matt(he/they) is a poet, astrologer, teacher, letterpress printer and co-owner of Salient Tooth Press, and a father. They are the author of Strangers at the Event Horizon (Gesture Press and Journal, 2015), which they co-wrote with their partner Kristen. Matt’s poetry and essays have appeared in several anthologies, journals, and web zines.

Matt has taught at Bristol Community College with the Upward Bound Program and currently teaches Literature and Composition at Georgian Court University, Monmouth University, and Brookdale Community College, as an adjunct professor all along the Jersey Shore.

Matt is an MFA graduate of Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of (Dis)embodied Poetics.

 

A Look Inside The Birth Chart—

Let’s start with a poem and a song:

“Roads not for human feet, stairs made of malachites on 

which the thin mists break into shreds, theories leading to

the golden white of immaculate peaks where the 

slope of the sun spreads a ruby glory. The lake lay

silent — blackened in pain, like a lidless eye that

stares forever, like a piece of night caught in

fossilized, sad hands. like the ghosts of a person

cursed forever. they stood looking at each other without

words, but sincerely into the silence that was

drowned out by the song of nature— the witch.” 

- Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska

Inside the Chart…

Walter Pullen's Simple Delineation, though born from the stark logic of astrology, seems to reach for the invisible threads that connect stars to souls. Like a map drawn not to show roads but the way shadows fall, it outlines the planetary dance in terms so crisp they almost hum with clarity. It does not explain. It reflects. A mirror for the inner world, but clean and cold like the surface of a still lake that hides everything it contains. THEY ARE frameworks, open yet complete, which demand the reader bring themselves fully to the page or the stars to find meaning.

Moon in Capricorn

Leo Rising Birth Chart

Each Planet gets three pages. An explanation, a tarot card pull, and a poetic accompaniment.

I end each chart with a poem.