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
Alaska Women Speak
Apeiron Review
Arcturus
Bellevue Literary Review
Bellingham Review
The Blue Mountain Review
Bridge Eight
Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review
Cactus Heart
Chiron Review
Cirque
CONSEQUENCE Magazine
Crab Creek Review
Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts
DIALOGIST
diode
Foothill Poetry Journal
Glass: A Journal of Poetry
Gold Man Review
HEArt Online
Ibbetson Street
International Poetry Review
The Maine Review
The Main Street Rag
The McNeese Review
Metonym
Michigan Quarterly Review
The Missing Slate’s Poem of the Week
Mslexia
New York Quarterly: “All My Life I Have Perceived the World Wrongly“
The Normal School
North American Review
Off the Coast
One: “An Example”
Orbis: Quarterly International Literary Journal
Pacifica Literary Review
The Pinch
Poetry Northwest
REAL: Regarding Arts and Letters
Rock & Sling
Salamander
The Shore
Sierra Nevada Review
Silk Road Review
Slipstream
The Southampton Review
Spillway
Split Rock Review
Spoon River Poetry Review
Stirring: A Literary Collection
Sukoon
Tar River Poetry
Temenos
Tupelo Quarterly
Two Review
Vandal‘s Poem of the Day
Visions International
War, Literature and the Arts
Wasafiri
West Texas Literary Review
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:
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 