G.C. Waldrep is the author of the collection feast gently (Tupelo, 2018), winner of the 2019 William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America; a long poem, Testament (BOA Editions, 2015); The Earliest Witnesses (Tupelo/Carcanet, 2021); and The Opening Ritual (Tupelo, 2024), named one of the New York Times’ five best poetry collections of 2024. With Ilya Kaminsky he co-edited Homage to Paul Celan (Marick, 2011) and with Joshua Corey he co-edited The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral (Ahsahta, 2012).
Waldrep’s poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, APR, Paris Review, New England Review, New American Writing, Harper’s, Tin House, Conjunctions, and many other journals in the U.S. and abroad, as well as in the Best American Poetry anthology series and the second edition of Norton’s Postmodern American Poetry. His work has received prizes from the Poetry Society of America and the Academy of American Poets as well as the Colorado Prize, the Dorset Prize, the Campbell Corner Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, a Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative American Writing, and a 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature. He teaches at Bucknell University and edits the journal West Branch. From 2007 to 2018 he served as Editor-at-Large for The Kenyon Review.
At MacDowell, Waldrep has worked on poems for his first poetry manuscript, then tentatively entitled Modes of Transportation; completed his third full-length poetry collection, Archicembalo; edited two poetry manuscripts, then tentatively entitled The Gardens of Weehawken and On Planetary Speech; worked on new poems, including the second, site-specific movement of a new lyric sequence, Glebelands, and completed drafting a separate manuscript, then tentatively entitled Hive Artifact. He is currently completing Purton Green, a long poem about walking, landscape access, and the law.
