
Natalie Diaz, Valentine
SO MANY of our “love poems” are just brief moments of objectification of a maybe-sorta- loved-one. But Natalie Diaz’s poem “I Watch Her Eat the Apple” goes back to one of our oldest stories of ...
Sarah Vap is the author of four collections of poetry. The most recent, Arco Iris (Saturnalia Books) was named a Library Journal Book Best Book of 2012. She is a recipient of a 2013 National Endowment of the Arts Grant for poetry. Her first collection, Dummy Fire, received the Saturnalia Poetry Prize. Her second collection, American Spikenard, received the Iowa Poetry Prize. She lives in Santa Monica and is pursuing her PhD at University of Southern California.