Scott Frey is a poet and educator from Western Pennsylvania. His recent work has been published in Passages North, december magazine, The Adroit Journal, Bellevue Literary Review, and The Missouri Review, where he received the Perkoff Prize for poetry. His collection, Heavy Metal Nursing, won the Tampa Review Prize for poetry. His chapbook, Strange Vigil, was a winner in the Black River Chapbook Competition and will be published in the fall of 2025. He and his wife, Meryl, run a non-profit charity, The Charlotte Frey Foundation, whose mission is to help children with multiple handicaps and life-threatening illnesses and their families improve their quality of life. He and his family live in Granby, Connecticut.

Other poems by Scott Frey in Verse Daily:

Other poems on the web by Scott Frey:
Three poems

Scott Frey's Website.

About Heavy Metal Nursing:

"Scott Frey is an astonishing poet, a miracle spinner of life and struggle and love and grief, in a tender, intricate book which will touch everyone who ever suffered, worried, or embraced a child. Heavy Metal Nursing, including the marvelous 'found poems' in children's voices, feels like a miracle of presence and utter life-changing care."
—Naomi Shihab Nye

"In this accomplished debut, Scott Frey plumbs the depths of unthinkable loss in poems that are as formally agile as they are unflinching: prose poems and slant-rhymed pantoums alongside odes to nurses and therapists, a poem-as-instruction-manual for a deep suction machine. What begins as a requiem for the last stages of a daughter's life deepens into a collection that pushes past fear and devastation—and even death—into something like wonder. This is a speaker I trust, and these poems, 'half howl, half prayer,' are powerful testament to the resilience of the spirit."
—Edgar Kunz