Picking Raspberries in My Backyard While Someone Explains Brahms and Someone Explains Raspberries Matt Donovan 4 Minutes Read Time Photo by Anna Zakharova on Unsplash This content is only accessible to logged in members. Please login to continue.Read more from Issue 23.1. Matt Donovan is the author most recently of We Are Not Where We Are (Bull City Press, 2025) which was co-authored with Jenny George, and The Dug-Up Gun Museum (BOA 2022). He serves as the director of the Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College. Return to top of page