Nathaniel Perry

Nathaniel Perry is the author of two books of poems, Nine Acres (Copper Canyon, 2011) and Long Rules (Backwaters, 2021). A book of essays, Joy (Or Something Darker but Like It) (Michigan, 2024) was released last year in the Poets on Poetry Series. He lives in Virginia and edits The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review.

Poetry – Issue 37

•73 (Song, with Wrens’ Wings)

I dreamed I was such as are of a clean heart, / for they are not in trouble, as other men / are. They don’t get plagued. Whenever they sin / they feel alright about it.

Poetry – Issue 29

Invasives

The love we walk around with is a dull / tool—though it hangs from our belts with a rusty grace. . .