Our Poets
The voices at the heart of Ink & Ribbon Press — poets whose work we are honored to publish, promote, and preserve.
Jan Noble
PoetJan Noble is a poet whose work spans stage, screen, and the page. His epic 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 at the ICA and Riverside Studios in London, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York, Keats-Shelley House in Rome, and Teatro Filodrammatici in Milan. His work has been featured on BBC Radio and Channel 4, and he taught poetry and creative writing in prisons, psychiatric wards, hospices, and homeless shelters for over a decade.
“Intense and chilling” — The Guardian
“Poetry of strength and impact” — La Stampa
“Sophisticated urban narratives” — NME
Cara Waterfall
PoetCara Waterfall is a bilingual poet, mentor, and storyteller whose work explores language, memory, and belonging through English, French, and Nouchi — the hybrid Ivoirian urban language that fuses French with local and borrowed vocabularies. Born in Ottawa and currently based in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, her debut collection Radiant Wound (Unsolicited Press, 2025) explores post–civil war trauma in Côte d'Ivoire and how conflict reshapes language.
A CBC Poetry Prize shortlistee and three-time finalist for Radar Poetry's Coniston Prize, her work has appeared in Best Canadian Poetry, The Fiddlehead, Room, and The Night Heron Barks. Through Archipel, her mentorship platform, she advances a gate-free literary ethos centered on sustained creative practice, with particular attention to West African poets and diasporic Canadian voices.
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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