National Poetry Month: Jesse Nathan
Created by Bob Helmbrecht, collection development librarian
Our National Poetry Month poet for today is Jesse Nathan.
Nathan's debut collection, "Eggtooth," was published in January by Unbound Edition Press. It has already been a finalist for a number of awards, including the Golden Poppy Award and the Medal Provocateur/Eric Hoffer Award, and was a long-list finalist for the Nossrat Yassini Poetry Prize. It was the winner of the Great Lakes Colleges Association 2024 GLCA New Writers Award for Poetry.
From the publisher's description: "The book's title comes from the word for a bit of cartilage on a baby bird's beak, a growth that helps it break out of the egg. Shortly after the bird hatches, the tooth disappears. Like an eggtooth, Nathan's poems are often figures for birth, for the violence of birth and, in his case, rebirth." Poet Frank Bidart said of the collection: “Jesse Nathan’s 'Eggtooth' is an ambitious, brilliant rethinking of what making a poem is. Again and again the author makes us feel that we have been present at the creation.”
One of the poems from "Eggtooth" can be found in “Best American Poetry 2024.” You can also find some of Nathan's poems and essays on the author's website. Sample some of them, then check out "Eggtooth" today!
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