REVIEWS:
Action, Spectacle: “’The Miles Spent in Flight’: Inheritance and Memory in Ángel García’s Indifferent Cities“
Heavy Feather Review: “‘We, the Source’: Tara Ballard on the Resilience of Women in Maggie Queeney’s settler” and “‘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” and “‘The Wandering Shape of You’: Evidence and Recollection in Iliana Rocha’s The Many Deaths of Inocencio Rodriguez“
Rain Taxi: “Deluge by Leila Chatti,” “O by Zeina Hashem Beck,” “Refugee by Pamela Uschuk,” and “The Wild Fox of Yemen by Threa Almontaser”
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.
BOOKS:
House of the Night Watch (Winner of the 2016 Many Voices Project Prize in Poetry; New Rivers Press; 2018)
SELECTED POEMS:
Grateful acknowledgments to the editors and presses who have accepted Tara Ballard’s work. Select poems have been published in the following magazines and collections:
The Atlantic: “The Contract“
Bellevue Literary Review
Bellingham Review
CONSEQUENCE Magazine
Crab Creek Review
Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts
Diode
The Dodge
Glass: A Journal of Poetry
Iron Horse Literary Review
The Journal
The Louisville Review
Michigan Quarterly Review
New York Quarterly: “All My Life I Have Perceived the World Wrongly“
North American Review
One
The Pinch
Poetry Northwest
Salamander
The Southampton Review
Spoon River Poetry Review
Stirring: A Literary Collection
SWWIM Every Day
Tar River Poetry
Tupelo Quarterly
War, Literature and the Arts
Wasafiri
ANTHOLOGIES:
The Nazim Hikmet Poetry Festival’s Hasret / Longing
Cutthroat‘s Writers Respond to the Rhetoric of Hate and Fear
CREATIVE NONFICTION:
North American Review
Urban Farmhouse Press’ Ford City Anthology
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
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