
Jesse Nathan
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Eggtooth (fall '23 @PressUnbound) | poems in NYRB, Paris Review, Kenyon Review, APR, Fence | lecturer @ucbenglish | #ShortConvosWithPoets @mcsweeneys
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04-01-2021 00:14:52
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Beautiful sad essay on the many meanings of the death of the Oakland A's, by the poet and journalist POCHO BOY MEETS WORLD

"I keep my expectations extremely low so that all I have to do is write a certain number of pages a day, regardless of quality." - Catherine Barnett #ShortConvosWithPoets Jesse Nathan mcsweeneys.net/articles/cathe…

'by the voices—invented and real': my one-question interview with Catherine Barnett McSweeney's Graywolf Press mcsweeneys.net/articles/cathe…

Eggtooth named winner of the Housatonic Book Award in Poetry! Unbound Edition Press MFA in Writing @WCSU housatonicbookawards.wordpress.com

Jesse Nathan MFA in Writing @WCSU We are so proud for Jesse Nathan (aka Jesse Nathan). Eggtooth is a masterpiece and we are beyond honored to have published it.

'Survival, reinvention, and struggle': my one-question interview with Kwame Dawes McSweeney's W. W. Norton & Company mcsweeneys.net/articles/kwame…

"Home is a great intimacy for me. Home is family, it is my siblings, my parents, and my wife, Lorna, and my children, and the communities that have shaped me by welcoming me and keeping me." -Kwame Dawes #ShortConvosWithPoets Jesse Nathan mcsweeneys.net/articles/kwame…


"Whenever I get a glimmer of a poem, I experiment with the little I have, so as to suss out what shape—call it form—it seems to want or need." - Carol Moldaw #ShortConvosWithPoets Jesse Nathan mcsweeneys.net/articles/carol…

Thrilled to announce WAVEMACHINE22 / Feb 15 / feat. Rick Barot, Cathy Park Hong, and Jesse Nathan. Visit our website to get the address via mailing list: davidgorin.net/wavemachine. Poster c/o AdamDouglasThompson



"You have to learn to let some things pass through you into the room of the poem, so they can be perceived. It took me a long time to learn how to do that, and I have to relearn it every time I write a poem." #ShortConvosWithPoets Jesse Nathan mcsweeneys.net/articles/matth…

'Inexplicable radiance': my one-question interview with Dong Li McSweeney's UChicagoPress mcsweeneys.net/articles/dong-…

Thank you, Jesse Nathan Jesse Nathan & McSweeney's McSweeney's for such a moving review & conversation, just before THE ORANGE TREE turns two years old! Hope you'll check this out and many other conversations with poets in the wonderful series! shorturl.at/Po258

McSweeney's Jesse Nathan With much gratitude for this and the whole series!!


WATCH: “This is a tragedy for the free world. But first and foremost a tragedy for the United States.” This 8 minute speech by French Senator Claude Malhuret on Trump siding with Putin and what it means for the world is worth your time. Full: youtu.be/unSSHfIs3U0

"Isn’t that what poetry writing is like? Navigating a new floor plan without any lights? Or building the house itself as you wander through bare boards and beams?" - Derek Mong #ShortConvosWithPoets Jesse Nathan mcsweeneys.net/articles/derek…


"I try when I can to write before talking in the morning, just scrawling, basically, on paper until my hand outstrips my brain and whatever wants to appear appears." - Margaret Ross #ShortConvosWithPoets Jesse Nathan mcsweeneys.net/articles/marga…