Nathan D. Metz
Writer -- Teacher -- Reader
Bio
Nathan D. Metz (he/his) is a writer and teacher from California. His work has been featured in Autofocus, Phantom Kangaroo, The Racket, Moon City Review, the Santa Clara Review, and elsewhere. He has taught writing in a range of contexts, from elementary to post-secondary. A 2-time Pushcart nominee and Best New Poets nominee, his writing and translations have been supported by the Elk River Writers Workshop, Canterbury Program, and the Community of Writers. He attended Santa Clara University and is a Master of Fine Arts - Creative Writing candidate at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
My influences include Robert Hass, Linda Gregg, Li-Young Lee, nonsense, Anne Carson, James Baldwin, Mary Ruefle, Fernando Pessoa, Sappho, Frank O'Hara, Toni Morrison, Issa's "For you fleas too / The night must be long / It must be lonely" , Gerard Manley Hopkins, touch, Lucille Clifton, Chris Burden, Emily Dickinson, Zen practice, Abstract Expressionism, Erasure Poetics, and pizza.
Recent Publications
Santa Clara Review -- "Voices from Inside the House"
"What I Sing About When I Sing by Accident"
"Pantoum with the Colors Dripping" May 2024
Moon City Review – “In Some Lights” March 2024
Heavy Feather Review – “Review for Marisa Lin’s DREAM ELEVATOR” (book review), March 2024
Santa Clara Review – “Fragment Sonnet”
“How to Grow Blurry” (Shipsey Poetry Prize First Place) (Pushcart Prize nominee) February 2024
The Racket – “Some Wound of Color” (AWP Intro Journals Project Honorable Mention) Winter 2024
Phantom Kangaroo – “Self-Portrait Between Two Ghost Stories” October 2023
Autofocus – “A Long Story with a Straight Line” September 2023
The Owl – “Trying to Get More Specific When it Comes to Movement”
“Instructions for a Painter”
“A Love Poem”
“Noon Near the Mission” May 2023
Zaum Magazine – “Compression”
“To Comprehend” (Pushcart Prize nominee) – May 2023
Hawaii Pacific Review – “Shades” October 2022