"...in these poems, Nathan
McClain pressures the world
and reconfigures it."
-C. Dale Young, author of The Halo
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Nathan is a poet, editor, and educator living in Amherst, Massachusetts. He is the author of Scale (Four Way Books, 2017), and his poems have recently appeared, or are forthcoming, in New York Times Magazine, Poem-a-Day, The Common, West Branch Wired, upstreet, and Foundry, among others.
FEATURED POEM
from "They said I was an alternate"
so I thought like an alternate
Answered black when asked
where is the nearest bathroom
guilty
as charged when
the barista called the name
I made up...
--first published in Foundry
