UC Berkeley English Department Lecturer Jesse Nathan has won the 2024 GLCA New Writers Award in poetry for his debut collection Eggtooth, published by Unbound Edition Press.
The judges, faculty members of creative writing and literature from the GLCA’s 13 member colleges, wrote: “With lush sounds and an opulence of rhymes and off-rhymes, Jesse Nathan's language evokes the intensity and insistence of memory…his poems induce a strong temptation to stop, re-read, wonder over the latticework of each stanza, each carefully lathed line, each rhyme, and even each word: 'caruncle,' 'catenary,' 'hackberry.' His bold yet disciplined experiment with form in this book is deeply motivated, giving these exquisitely made poems a compelling urgency and depth.”
See here for more information on this year's winners of the GLCA New Writers Award.