September 23: Jesse Nathan reads Eggtooth

At 3pm on Saturday, September 23, at The School, Jesse Nathan will read from his debut collection of poems, Eggtooth, forthcoming in September from Unbound Edition Press. Nathan’s poems have appeared in The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, and The New Republic.

“Brilliant and Unexpected. . . made out of an intense, sensual sense of place.” -Robert Hass

“Eggtooth is one of the newborn wonders of the world.” -Katie Ford

“A brilliant rethinking of what making a poem is.” -Frank Bidart

“The Gerard Manley Hopkins of the 21st century.” -Major Jackson

Nathan came of age on the farm after his family moved from Northern California to Central Kansas. “Many of the poems draw on my experience growing up on a wheat farm . . . the son of a Jewish father and a Mennonite mother,” Nathan said. “I have a sense of being both of that place and, in other ways, a stranger to it.

Jesse Nathan is a founding editor of the poetry series at McSweeney’s and teaches at UC Berkeley. He lives in Oakland, California.

The School is collaborating with Flint Hills Books and copies of Eggtooth will be available for purchase at the event. A reception with light refreshments will follow the reading.