Discipline: Literature – poetry

Nate Klug

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Grinnell, IA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2014

Nate Klug’s poems, translations, and essays have appeared in many journals, including Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Free Verse, nonsite, Poetry, Poetry Northwest, The Threepenny Review, The Yale Review, and Zoland Poetry. In 2010 he was awarded a Ruth Lilly Fellowship by the Poetry Foundation. In 2013, The Song Cave published Rude Woods, his versions of Virgil’s Eclogues. Anyone, his first book of poems, will be out in March 2015 from the University of Chicago Phoenix Poets Series.

Klug, who was born in Minnesota, grew up in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and earned a BA in English at the University of Chicago, works as an UCC-Congregationalist minister and has served churches in North Guilford, Connecticut and Grinnell, Iowa.

Studios

Heyward

Nate Klug worked in the Heyward studio.

The Lodge Annex, a wing on the west side of the men’s dormitory (The Lodge), was completed in 1926. Initially intended as an apartment for a caretaker, the space was soon repurposed as a live-in studio for writers. In recognition of a major endowment gift from the DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Foundation, Lodge Annex was…

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