Nathaniel Im

Nathaniel Im, a junior at Portsmouth Abbey, builds wearables that predict falls in the elderly—training algorithms to detect risk in a stride's rhythm. Engineering meets poetry: it's the same way he scans Latin verse for meter, caesura, and elisions. He's developing "Kinetic Verse," a digital anthology pairing poems with movement visualizations, and preparing his first print collection. He also loves wrestling his dad in the snow or plotting Secret Santa twists—his veggie-hating brother once unwrapped ten cabbages, Pokémon cards buried underneath.

“Wireless,” “narratives in movement,” and “the color of air”

anyway, i keep thinking about the old laptop we passed around after school,
blue light pooling over our faces like a second puberty—hot,
cords under your desk, knotted around our feet.
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