Our Poets
The voices at the heart of Ink & Ribbon Press — poets whose work we are honored to publish, promote, and preserve.
Jan Noble
Poet & PlaywrightJan Noble is a poet, playwright, and filmmaker whose work spans stage, screen, and the page. His play Body 115 won Best Innovative Play at the London Pub Theatre Awards and toured nationally in 2025. His poetry film My Name Is Swan won Best Narrative at the Los Angeles International Poetry Film Festival and premiered at the Curzon Cinema with support from Arts Council England.
He has performed and read at the ICA and Riverside Studios in London, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and Bowery Poetry Club in New York, the Keats-Shelley House in Rome, Teatro Filodrammatici in Milan, and Teatrino Di Palazzo Grassi in Venice. His work has been featured on BBC Radio, Channel 4, and ITV, and praised by The Guardian, NME, and La Stampa.
Noble has been poet in residence at the East End Film Festival and the Keats-Shelley House, Rome (2026). He has lectured at University College London and Università degli Studi di Milano, and for over a decade taught poetry and creative writing in prisons, psychiatric wards, hospices, and homeless shelters. He hosts Angeli d’Inferno, a monthly international poetry forum connecting poets, professors, and filmmakers across London, Venice, Milan, and New York.
“Intense and chilling” — The Guardian
“Poetry of strength and impact” — La Stampa
“Sophisticated urban narratives” — NME
Brooks Lampe
PoetBrooks Lampe teaches literature and creative writing, specializing in world literature, poetics, and aesthetic theory. He is the poetry editor of Sehnsucht: The C.S. Lewis Journal and edits the Substack Uut Poetry.
His scholarship and poetry engage Surrealism, literary history, and belief. His poems have appeared in Utriculi, The Shore, Shot Glass, and Peculiar Mormyrid, among others. He holds a PhD from The Catholic University of America.
G. K. Allum
Poet & Founding EditorG. K. Allum is the founder and executive editor of Ink & Ribbon Press. A Pushcart Prize–nominated poet and award-winning artist, his work began as limited self-published editions created out of necessity and love.
He is studying for an MFA in Poetry at Pacific University. What began as a personal press has grown into a quiet collective for those who believe that art, like love, is worth doing beautifully.
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Ink & Ribbon Press is always looking for new voices. Submit your manuscript during our open reading period or enter the LemonLight Prize.
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