Draft:Kent Leatham

Nathaniel Kent Leatham (born 1984) is a poet, translator, and teacher at Pacific Grove High School. He has received numerous awards for his poetry and is an active speaker for the Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium.

Life
Kent Leatham was born in 1984 in Monterey, California as an only child to a single mother. He went to Pacific Grove High School and had a full K–12 education before moving on to the Pacific Lutheran University where he would attain a bachelor's degree in poetry. Leatham would also get an MFA in poetry at Emerson College.

Poetry
Leatham has written more than 60 poems which have been published by several journals, including The Monterey Poetry Review and Poetry Quarterly.

Leatham is a curator and key member of the Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium, where in 2021, Leatham was given coordinating responsibilities by founder and poet John Laue. Leatham has tried moving the Consortium towards live streaming the in-person events, saying that “We are the oldest continuously operating poetry reading series in the region. My ambition is to keep this tradition unbroken, pushing through as long as we can.”

Translations
Leatham is also an active translator, publishing English translations of Scottish poetry and a few pieces of classical Greek and Roman poetry as well.