Nathan McWeeney (pen name, McWhitney) is a poet, teacher, and artist, who seeks to bring poetry to public spaces in fresh and vibrant ways. For the past two months, he has written poetry live, on a 1960s typewriter, for visitors at Balboa Park and for guests at private events. The poems he writes, on the spot, are based on the themes and topics that visitors offer. Before beginning his poetry project, he was a PhD student in Religious Studies at the University of Southern California where he focused on the literature and art that arose from the San Francisco Zen boom following the Second World War. In his teaching practice, he hosts poetry workshops where he guides students through notable poetic forms and historical movements in order to help them develop their own unique poetic styles. You can see more of his work on Instagram @mcwhitneys_poetry