Nate Marshall

Poems that appear in Poetry December 2015

i look at homicide rates

& wish we all expired the way i know best.


Oregon Trail


Harold’s Chicken Shack #86


Nate Marshall’s first book, Wild Hundreds (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015), won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize. He is a co-editor of The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop (2015). He is a visiting assistant professor at Wabash College, a founding member of the Dark Noise poetry collective, and a Cave Canem Fellow. His work has appeared in Poetry, Indiana Review, and The New Republic, among other publications. He was the star of the award-winning documentary “Louder Than A Bomb” and has been featured in the HBO Original Series “Brave New Voices.” Marshall received the 2014 Hurston/Wright Founding Members Award and the 2013 Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award.

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