Natasha Rao

Natasha Rao is the author of Latitude, which was selected by Ada Limón as the winner of the 2021 APR/Honickman First Book Prize. The recipient of a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, she has also received fellowships from Bread Loaf, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Vermont Studio Center, and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. She has received additional support from the Community of Writers, the Hambidge Center, and the VCCA. (Source)

Poems by Natasha Rao

For My Brother by Natasha Rao

August 24, 2026

“Whenever / heads touched, our / dreams were related / by blood. / It all was a kind of magic / then.” — Natasha Rao

In My Next Life Let Me Be a Tomato by Natasha Rao

July 11, 2023

"I want to be unabashed, audacious, to gobble / space, to blush deeper each day in the sun, knowing / I'll end up in an eager mouth." — Natasha Rao

Poems curated by Natasha Rao

Lake Echo, Dear by C. D. Wright

September 7, 2025

“How summer’s children turn / into fish and rain softens men” — C. D. Wright