Mathias Svalina - October 9, 2025

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Poetry Center
Mathias Svalina

Mathias Svalina reads from his eighth book, Thank You, Terror (2024). He also reads "dreams," surrealist prose poems written across the past eleven years of his Dream Delivery Service, through which Svalina delivers dreams by bike to subscribers. This reading was originally given alongside Richard Siken.

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Welcome
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by Tyler Meier

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Introduction
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by Susan Briante

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"Thank You Terror (There is no loneliness in noise…)"
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Svalina, Mathias. Thank You Terror. Big Luck Books, 2024.

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"Thank You Terror (I made of myself a commodity…)"
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Svalina, Mathias. Thank You Terror. Big Luck Books, 2024, p. 42.

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"Thank You Terror (In the compound city…)"
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Svalina, Mathias. Thank You Terror. Big Luck Books, 2024, pp. 2-3.

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"Thank You Terror (Sarah has been texting someone…)"
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Svalina, Mathias. Thank You Terror. Big Luck Books, 2024, pp. 22-23.

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"Thank You Terror (Yes, every night pain…)"
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Svalina, Mathias. Thank You Terror. Big Luck Books, 2024, pp. 26-27.

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"Thank You Terror (Baus & I are catcalling families…)"
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Svalina, Mathias. Thank You Terror. Big Luck Books, 2024, pp. 36-40.

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"A crying stranger rushes to you…"
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"A creek wraps around your wrist…"
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"Your loved one has died…"
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"You are in clown school…"
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"You are a child riding the bus…"
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"You keep a handful of bumblebees…"
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"You sneeze so loudly…"
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"You were playing drums in a basement…"
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Mathias Svalina
Photographer
Paola Valenzuela
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