Natalie Staples

Upon reading Bring Now the Angels, I was first struck by Dilruba Ahmed’s lyric prowess, in other words, her ability to capture a fleeting moment or sensation in verse. In the second poem of the collection, “Feast,” the speaker describes …

I met Rick Barot at the Bread Loaf Writing Conference in August 2019 and immediately felt his sincerity as a person and a poet. Far too rarely are we able connect with those writers who really listen to what we …