Talking With Poets: Nathan Smith at the Year in Review

Thom Francis welcomes poet Nathan Smith who shared his work at the Hudson Valley Writers Guild’s Year in Review reading at MochaLisa’s Caffè in Clifton Park on December 2, 2023.

Nathan Smith is a 25-year old PhD student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute studying Biochemistry and writing poetry to stay sane. He has been writing since he was 16 growing up in the Appalachian Mountains of Pennsylvania.

These days he has been published in literary magazines “Baily’s Beads” and “Resonance” and received first place awards in the “Talk without Borders” poetry competition and the “McKinney Writing Contest” for poetry. He published his first poetry anthology “Cotton Candy Sun” last December and hopes to publish more in the future. You can find him n Instagram at @CottonCandyPoems.