About

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Nathan Spoon is an autistic poet with learning disabilities and author of The Importance of Being Feeble-Minded (Nine Mile Books, 2025). His poems and essays have appeared in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, American Poetry Review, Bennington Review, Gulf Coast, Poetry, Poetry Daily, The Southern Review, and swamp pink, as well as the anthologies The American Sonnet: An Anthology of Poems and Essays, How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope, Love Is for All of Us: Poems of Tenderness and Belonging from the LGBTQ+ Community and Friends, Mid/South Sonnets: A Belle Point Press Anthology, and The Wonder of Small Things: Poems of Peace and Renewal. He is editor of Queerly and has read his poems at Penn, Vanderbilt, Yale, and elsewhere.