Reading and Book Signing with Scott Frey

Join poet and beloved former Walker’s English faculty member Scott Frey as he reads passages from his 2023 Tampa Review Poetry Prize-winning collection, Heavy Metal Nursing. This is a unique opportunity to experience Frey’s work brought to life, reflecting the skill and depth that earned him this prestigious award. Perfect for poetry enthusiasts and former students alike, this event celebrates Frey’s talent and dedication to his craft and teaching.

Tampa Review judges praised Frey’s collection, stating:

“Heavy Metal Nursing tells a story of love, the poet Scott Frey’s love for his firstborn daughter. It is not a sentimental love but a ‘heavy-metal’ one, complicated by the hard facts of his daughter’s life: she was born with a severe brain injury, needed intensive care her entire life, and died at three years old. This book is the work of a poet and a parent in equal measure. These are poems of vulnerability and pain, of course, but simultaneously of parenting, caregiving, marriage, medicine, humor, tenderness, affection. Frey brings poetic technique to bear on personal trauma, narrative on desolation, love on loss.”