BOOKS:
House of the Night Watch (Winner of the 2016 Many Voices Project Prize in Poetry; New Rivers Press; 2018)
POEMS:
Grateful acknowledgments to the editors and presses who have accepted Tara’s work. Poems have been published, or are forthcoming, in the following magazines and collections:
The Adirondack Review: “On the Travelling of Sound”
Alaska Women Speak: “Chugach and Raven,” “Eighteen Days into May,” “Layers,” “Sauna (Winter Thaw),” “Variations on a Coastline,” “Winter / Love”
Apeiron Review: “Shabbat,” “Soil”
Arcturus: “Variations on a Wildfire in November“
Bellevue Literary Review: “Hair, Plaited and Tied” and “Self-Portrait with Moxibustion and Neuropathy”
Bellingham Review: “Plot”
The Blue Mountain Review: “In the Cemetery,” “Self-Portrait with Ecdysis,” “There Are Rooftops”
Bridge Eight: “Where My Mind Goes When I Run”
Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review: “There Are Days When You Don’t Know What to Say”
Cactus Heart: “Khalil”
Chiron Review: “Dream,” “Frankincense,” “Journal Entry No. 53,” “Maqloobah”
Cirque: “A History,” “At Summer’s End”
CONSEQUENCE Magazine: “An Exercise toward Arendt’s Representative Thinking, as Found on Page 241,” “How the Woman Was Taken,” “Year Seven of the War”
Crab Creek Review: “Lesson No. 9,” “The After-Effects of an Inked Impression”
Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts: “The Map Shows Nothing”
DIALOGIST: “What Comes“
diode: “How Not to Give In to a Pandemic,” “Okay, Rumi, I Am Here“
Foothill Poetry Journal: “A Disturbance of the Atmosphere”
Glass: A Journal of Poetry: “Swimming Late”
Gold Man Review: “From Earth”
Guide to Kulchur Creative Journal: “An Email Arrives from My Student,” “International Aid,” “Memory,” “The Color Orange,” “Two Cars and a Cocktail Bomb”
HEArt Online: “Unfinished Letters to Officer [Insert Name]”
Ibbetson Street: “Visitation”
International Poetry Review: “Hikmah Is the Word for Wisdom,” “Waiting For”
The Maine Review: “The Answer for Everything”
The Main Street Rag: “On Acclimation”
The McNeese Review: “Dust Storms,” “We Listen to Speeches from the UN”
Metonym: “After a Day of Grief, Your Husband Turns to Amichai”
Michigan Quarterly Review: “At the Feet of Mothers”
The Missing Slate’s Poem of the Week: “Aloud,” “While Watching the Latest Clip out of Douma”
Mslexia: “Near the Red Sea”
New York Quarterly: “All My Life I Have Perceived the World Wrongly“
The Normal School: “A January without Heat“
North American Review: “Pastoral”
Off the Coast: “At the Checkpoint,” “House of the Night Watch”
One: “An Example,” “Reading Azar Nafisi in the Midwest”
Orbis: Quarterly International Literary Journal: “Lullaby,” “Suheir”
Pacifica Literary Review: “Essay on Identifying an Asterism“
The Pinch: “Words”
Poetry Northwest: “After,” “I Am Told,” “Self-Portrait with Thorn and Sea”
REAL: Regarding Arts and Letters: “A Death in the Old City,” “A Mother Speaks on the Trouble with NGOs and Non-Profits,” “Hannah,” “It Is Early Still,” “It Is September and You Have Run Out of Water”
Rock & Sling: “A Man Has Passed”
Salamander: “Maqloobah“
The Shore: “On the Notion of Lentils“
Sierra Nevada Review: “My Husband Catches a Salmon,” “Properties”
Silk Road Review: “Soil”
Slipstream: “Untitled”
The Southampton Review: “Reading E.L. Doctorow in Greece”
Spillway: “Baba Ghanoush”
Split Rock Review: “Resonance”
Spoon River Poetry Review: “Desdemona on Her Balcony or, On Being Surveilled,” “The Voice of Peace”
Stirring: A Literary Collection: “Kun Fayakoun,” “Harvest”
Sukoon: “5:09 AM,” “Again,” “Haboob,” “Lachrymator,” “Over a Fire, There Is a Small Peace,” “Refugee Camp,” “Scripture,” “Taxi-Bus,” “Women”
Tar River Poetry: “Smoke Circle,” “While Desdemona Waits for the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act to Move to the Senate, She Addresses the Man Outside”
Temenos: “December Nocturne,” “Husband”
Tupelo Quarterly: “Confession,” “Genealogy, Ending in a Suicide,” “Waiting for Rain,” “With or Without a Hypothesis”
Two Review: “Phosphorus,” “Shawarma”
Vandal‘s Poem of the Day: “I Am Told“
Visions International: “Wednesday at 3:00pm”
War, Literature and the Arts (Vol. 25): “How Do I Write to You about Minefields?”
Wasafiri: “And She Said”
West Texas Literary Review: “Behind a House”
ANTHOLOGIES:
The Nazim Hikmet Poetry Festival’s Hasret / Longing: “Questions Asked When I Return,” “Sister,” “Translation”
Truth to Power: Writers Respond to the Rhetoric of Hate and Fear: “A Post-Election Aubade from…,” “Unfinished Letters to Officer [Insert Name]”
CREATIVE NONFICTION:
North American Review: “Animum Advertere,” “Drinking from the Water: Finding ‘Pastoral’ in the Work of Terry Tempest Williams”
Urban Farmhouse Press’ Ford City Anthology: “What It Is to Witness: Understanding and Applying Poetry’s Bardic Tradition”
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: “Contributor Spotlight: Tara Ballard”
Speaking of Marvels: “Tara Ballard: Pay attention to the small wonders…”
AWARDS:
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: “Words?”
Finalist in the 2014 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition: Manuscript
Semi-finalist in Cutthroat’s 2014 Joy Harjo Poetry Contest: “The Map Will Show Nothing”
Tara Ballard 