G.C. Waldrep’s most recent books are feast gently (Tupelo, 2018), winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America; The Earliest Witnesses (Tupelo/Carcanet, 2021); and The Opening Ritual (Tupelo, 2024), one of the New York Times’s five best poetry collections of the year. Waldrep lives in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, where he teaches at Bucknell University.
