Jesse Nathan is a lecturer in the English Department at UC Berkeley. His poems appear in Paris Review, Yale Review, the Nation, and elsewhere. He grew up in rural Kansas and lives now in San Francisco.
Nature’s Nature
May/June 2022
The Well, Rural Route 1 Box 43
What wasn’t hidden wasn’t plainly there. Year by year I tracked our well’s steel-capped PVC-pipe headpost leaning vaguely as it disappeared in cedar-shrub, growing palisade, evergreen and tight. I liked […]
May/June 2021
If You Draw Rightly On A Wound, It Might Righten
Read a micro-conversation with the author here. And so? And so they drive over arid floors Of long-departed seas, and up with the land’s ramp Off the continental shield. They […]
Poetry
May/June 2021
Goodbye at Monument Rocks
Layer on layer these did not grow So much as gradually remain. Eyeless river, long Lost, cut these spires from the chalks just so, Left embrasures like portals for travelers […]
Jesse Nathan
Jesse Nathan is a lecturer in the English Department at UC Berkeley. His poems appear in Paris Review, Yale Review, the Nation, and elsewhere. He grew up in rural Kansas […]