BOOKS:
House of the Night Watch (Winner of the 2016 Many Voices Project Prize in Poetry; New Rivers Press; 2018)
SCHOLARLY TEXTS:
“A. Van Jordan (5 March 1965 – )” in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 392: Twenty-First-Century African American Poets. South Carolina: BCL, Inc., 2023.
“Camille T. Dungy (1972 – )” in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 392: Twenty-First-Century African American Poets. South Carolina: BCL, Inc., 2024.
“Poetic Form as Détournement in the Documentary Work of Layli Long Soldier, Marwa Helal, and Reginald Dwayne Betts.” The Journal of American Culture, March 2025.
“What It Is to Witness: Understanding and Applying Poetry’s Bardic Tradition.” Urban Farmhouse Press’s Ford City Workshop Anthology, 2016.
SELECTED POEMS:
Grateful acknowledgments to the editors and presses who have accepted Tara’s work. Select poems have been published in the following magazines and collections:
The Adirondack Review
Alaska Women Speak
The Atlantic
Bellevue Literary Review
Bellingham Review
Bridge Eight
Chiron Review
Cirque
CONSEQUENCE Magazine
Crab Creek Review
Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts
DIALOGIST
diode
Foothill Poetry Journal
Glass: A Journal of Poetry
HEArt Online
Ibbetson Street
Iron Horse Literary Review
The Journal
The Louisville Review
The Maine Review
The Main Street Rag
The McNeese Review
Michigan Quarterly Review
New York Quarterly: “All My Life I Have Perceived the World Wrongly“
The Normal School
North American Review
One: “An Example”
Pacifica Literary Review
The Pinch
Poetry Northwest
Rock & Sling
Salamander
The Shore
Sierra Nevada Review
Silk Road Review
The Southampton Review
Spillway
Split Rock Review
Spoon River Poetry Review
Stirring: A Literary Collection
Sukoon
SWWIM Every Day
Tar River Poetry
Tupelo Quarterly
Vandal‘s Poem of the Day
Visions International
War, Literature and the Arts
Wasafiri
ANTHOLOGIES:
The Nazim Hikmet Poetry Festival’s Hasret / Longing
Truth to Power: Writers Respond to the Rhetoric of Hate and Fear
CREATIVE NONFICTION:
North American Review
Urban Farmhouse Press’ Ford City Anthology
REVIEWS:
Heavy Feather Review: “‘We, the Source’: Tara Ballard on the Resilience of Women in Maggie Queeney’s settler,” “‘Whispering Dominium’: Witness and Want in Corey Van Landingham’s Love Letter to Who Owns the Heavens”
Tupelo Quarterly: “‘I find in the mirror a woman’: (Bodily) Citizenship in Katie Farris’s Standing in the Forest of Being Alive,” “‘The Wandering Shape of You’: Evidence and Recollection in Iliana Rocha’s The Many Deaths of Inocencio Rodriguez by Tara Ballard”
Rain Taxi: “Deluge by Leila Chatti,” “O by Zeina Hashem Beck,” “Refugee by Pamela Uschuk,” “The Wild Fox of Yemen by Threa Almontaser”
INTERVIEWS:
Bellingham Review
Speaking of Marvels
AWARDS:
Recipient of a 2024 Wilbur Gaffney Poetry Prize through the Academy of American Poets
Nominated for a 2022 Pushcart Prize by Tar River Poetry
Finalist for a Barjeel Poetry Prize in English in 2020
Nominated for a 2019 Pushcart Prize by the Nazim Hikmet Poetry Festival
Nominated for a 2019 Pushcart Prize by Alaska Women Speak
Winner of a 2019 Nazim Hikmet Poetry Prize: Third Place
Semi-finalist in Grist: A Journal for Writers‘ 2018 ProForma Poetry Contest
Winner of the 2016 Many Voices Project Competition: House of the Night Watch
Finalist in the Writers @ Work 2016 Fellowship Competition
Finalist in the 2014 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition: Manuscript
Semi-finalist in Cutthroat’s 2014 Joy Harjo Poetry Contest
Tara Ballard 