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Reviews: Harriet @ Poetry Foundation, 32 Poems, Poetry International, Kirkus, Lit Hub, McSweeney's, The Millions, On the Seawall, The Adroit Journal, PN Review, Poetry London, Poetry Northwest, Preposition, Travels with Charley, Publisher's Weekly, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Shanghai Literary Review, Southern Humanities Review, and West Branch
Interviewed by: Tao Lin @ Hobart, H.L. Hix @ Poetry Northwest, Kenyon Review, Ilya Kaminsky @ McSweeney's, Alexandria Hall and Amelia Ada @ YSLPLTY, Mandana Chaffa @ On the Seawall
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January 15, 2025 / The Bennington Writing Seminars / Bennington, Vermont
February 17, 2025 / Kenyon College / Gambier, Ohio
February 18, 2025 / Denison University, with DK Nnuro / Granville, Ohio
March 20, 2025 / Allegheny College, with Derek Mong / Meadville, Pennsylvania
April 30, 2025 / Community Resilience Hub at Kansas Wesleyan University,
with Robert Hass and Wes Jackson / Salina, Kansas
July 6, 2025 / Writing Workshops in Greece / Thasos, Greece
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September 14, 2023 / Green Apple on the Park, with Richie Hofmann and
Armen Davoudian / San Francisco
September 16, 2023 / The Kansas Book Festival / Topeka, Kansas
September 16, 2023 / A Common Sense Reading Series, with Hadara Bar-Nadav / Kansas City Art Institute / Kansas City, Missouri
September 18, 2023 / Convocation Series, Bethel College / North Newton, Kansas
September 23, 2023 / The School for Rural Creativity / Matfield Green, Kansas
September 28, 2023 / Boulettes Larder / San Francisco
September 29, 2023 / The Berkeley Institute, with Danielle Chapman / Berkeley
October 7, 2023 / Book Passage, with Robert Hass / Corte Madera, California
October 8, 2023 / SEAM Reading Series, with James Allen Hall and Prageeta Sharma / Zoom
October 9, 2023 / Buxton Books, with Atsuro Riley and Danielle Chapman /
Charleston, South Carolina
October 11, 2023 / Elms College / Chicopee, Massachusetts
October 12, 2023 / Williams College / Williamstown, Massachusetts
October 13, 2023 / Princeton University, Lewis Center for the Arts / Princeton, New Jersey
October 14, 2023 / P&T Knitwear, with Ilya Kaminsky, Katie Farris, Danielle Chapman, and Colin Channer / New York City
October 16, 2023 / The Blacksmith House Reading Series, with Ron Slate /
Cambridge, Massachusetts
October 19, 2023 / Ledbury Poetry House / Ledbury, England
October 21, 2023 / Southbank Centre for Poetry London, with Michael Hofmann,
Monica Youn, Milan Děžinský, and L. Renée / London
October 23, 2023 / University of St Andrews / St Andrews, Scotland
October 25, 2023 / Oxford University, with Hannah Sullivan, Erica McAlpine,
and Declan Ryan / Oxford
November 9, 2023 / Dad's Garage, An Evening of Queer Readings, with Janet Hardy
and Oliver Radclyffe / Atlanta
November 14, 2023 / UC Davis, Creative Writing Series / Davis, California
December 2, 2023 / North Figueroa Bookshop, with Katie Ford and
Elizabeth Metzger / Los Angeles
December 7, 2023 / Lunch Poems, UC Berkeley / Berkeley
December 11, 2023 / Elliott Bay Book Company, with Gabrielle Bates
and Bill Carty / Seattle
January 7, 2024 / Dominican University, with Armen Davoudian / San Rafael, California
January 31, 2024 / Literati, with Linda Gregerson / Ann Arbor, Michigan
February 3, 2024 / Point Reyes Books, with Karen Solie, introduced by Forrest Gander /
Point Reyes Station, California
February 12, 2024 / Orinda Books, Poetry Circle / Orinda, California
February 15, 2024 / University of California-Riverside, Writers Week Festival, reading with Jose Hernandez Diaz and Sandra Meek / Zoom
February 15, 2024 / Rock Dove Reading Series @ Tamarack Oakland, with A.A. Vincent, Dāshaun Washington, and Zeina Hashem Beck / Oakland
February 19, 2024 / Princeton University, Lewis Center for the Arts / Princeton, New Jersey
February 20, 2024 / KGB Bar, with Colin Channer and Ishion Hutchinson / New York City
February 21, 2024 / Black Spring Books, with Ilya Kaminsky, Katie Farris, and
Danielle Chapman / Brooklyn
February 22, 2024 / Bird in Hand, with Andrew Motion / Baltimore
March 9, 2024 / The 222 / Healdsburg, California
May 8, 2024 / The Bishop's School / San Diego
June 27, 2024 / Kenyon Review Workshops, Faculty Reading / Online
August 18, 2024 / Bread Loaf, with Jennifer Grotz and Lydi Conklin / Ripton, VT
September 10, 2024 / The Holloway Series @ UC Berkeley, with Cecil Giscombe, Solmaz Sharif, Beth Piatote, Geoffrey G. O'Brien, and John Shoptaw / Berkeley
October 27, 2024 / The Firehouse, with Bay Area LABA Fellows / San Francisco
November 3, 2024 / Bazaar Writers Salon, with Adedayo Agarau, Forrest Gander,and Carol Moldaw / San Francisco
November 12, 2024 / Earlham College / Richmond, Indiana
November 13, 2024 / Tomorrow Bookstore, with Derek Mong / Indianapolis, Indiana
November 14, 2024 / Wabash College / Crawfordsville, Indiana
December 4, 2024 / City Lights, with Brenda Hillman, celebrating Three Talks / San Francisco
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Jesse Nathan was raised in northern California and rural Kansas. His first book of poems, Eggtooth, was published by Unbound Edition Press in 2023. The collection won the 2024 New Writers Award in Poetry. It also won the 2024 Housatonic Book Award.
Eggtooth was Peter Campion’s first acquisition for the press, and the collection includes a foreword by Robert Hass. One poem in the book, "Dame's Rocket," was selected for the Best American Poetry 2024, published by Scribner. The book was a finalist for the Golden Poppy Award, the Northern California Book Award, the Medal Provocateur/Eric Hoffer Award, and the Nossrat Yassini Poetry Prize.
Nathan’s poetry has appeared in the New York Review of Books, the Paris Review, the American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, BOMB, The Nation, The Believer, Zyzzyva, and the inaugural issue of Revel, among other magazines. His work has been supported by fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Stanford University, the Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley, Bread Loaf, the Community of Writers, the Ashbery Home School, and the Kansas Arts Commission. He's a 2024 LABA Bay Area Fellow. He is the 2024 Robert Frost Fellow in Poetry at Bread Loaf.
Marie Mutsuki Mockett calls Nathan’s poems “incredibly beautiful,” and Katie Ford describes Eggtooth as “one of the newborn wonders of the world.” These are poems, writes Major Jackson, “written to reverberate through the ages.” “Jesse Nathan’s Eggtooth is an ambitious, brilliant rethinking of what making a poem is,” says Frank Bidart. “Again and again the author makes us feel that we have been present at the creation.”
Nathan’s translations from the Popol Vuh, done with his nephew and brother-in-law, have appeared in Poetry, and they were the subject of a Poetry podcast hosted by Srikanth Reddy. He's made translations of Alfonsina Storni and Brenda Solís-Fong with his sister, and these have appeared in Mantis and Poetry International. Nathan was a founding editor of the McSweeney's Poetry Series. He contributes occasional prose to the the New York Times. With Ilya Kaminsky and Dominic Luxford, he edited In the Shape of a Human Body I Am Visiting on Earth: Poems from Far and Wide. Nathan’s reviews and interviews appear in the online McSweeney's series “Short Conversations with Poets.”
He's taught poetry in the Kenyon Review Online Workshops and online at the 92Y. Nathan teaches in the English Department at UC Berkeley.
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