KATHLEEN BALMA
POEMS
The Café Review (Winter 2011) and Verse Daily (August 14, 2022)
Rattle (Issue #75 | Spring 2022)
Cat's Claw
American Journal of Poetry (Vol. 12 | 2022)
5 Star Review : Great Local Place Hot Dancers Decent Service Pool Table
American Journal of Poetry (Vol. 12 | 2022)
Commended in theTroubadour International Poetry Prize (2021)
Other Worlds
ZYZZYVA (No. 121 | Fall 2021)
Brownfield
ZYZZYVA (No. 121 | Fall 2021)
Ecotone (Issue 28, 15.1 | Fall/Winter 2020)
Something Will Survive Us
Nelle (Issue 4 | 2021)
Turning 45
The Greensboro Review (Issue 108 | Fall 2020)
Best of the Net nomination from New Orleans Review (Issue 45 | Fall 2020)
New Ohio Review (27 | Spring 2020) and Best New Poets 2020
Nude Bar
Silence: University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor's International Poetry Prize Anthology 2019 (University of Canberra | 2019)
What the Traveler Knows
International Publication Award, Atlanta Review (Vol. 17, Issue 1 | Fall/Winter 2010) and Atlanta Review Special 25th Anniversary Issue (Vol. XXV, Issue 2 | Spring 2019)
Snubbed: A Motion-Picture Ekphrasis
Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominations from The American Journal of Poetry (Vol. 6 | 2019)
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Spillway (Issue 26 | June 2018)
Elegy for Florence
Atlanta Review (Vol. 24, No. 2 | Fall/Winter 2017)
Black Hole Horizon
Sugar House Review (16 | Fall/Winter 2017)
Genetically Modified Crop Conspiracies
Dunes Review (21.2 | Fall 2017)
For Oyster Shuckers
The Hopkins Review (Summer 2017) and Contemporary Verse 2 (39.2 | Fall 2016)
Lunch Alone at Antoine's
Hotel Amerika (15 | Winter 2016-2017)
PMS: poemmemoirstory (16 | 2017)
Prelude (3 | 2017)
Lingua Franca
Maple Leaf Rag VI: An Anthology of Poetic Writings from New Orleans (Portals Press | 2017)
New Haven Review (018 | Fall 2016)
Cutbank Online (July 2016) and Maple Leaf Rag VI: An Anthology of Poetic Writings from New Orleans (Portals Press | 2017)
Spaghetti Midwestern II
Cardinal Points (Vol. 6 | 2016)
Chicken
Cardinal Points (Vol. 6 | 2016)
Fugue (No. 48 | Spring 2015)
Highlights from an Interview with the Author
decomP (July 2015)
Revelation at the Invisible Gun Show
The Journal (39.3 | Summer 2015)
Homage to the Twelve Steps
Xavier Review (Issue 35.2 | Fall 2015) and Canto (June 6, 2014)
Tiny Studies (Particle 14)
Xavier Review (Issue 35.2 | Fall 2015) and Pushcart Prize nomination from Star*Line (Issue 37.3 | Summer 2014)
Some Questions for the Anger Committee
Calliope (Issue 147 | Spring 2015)
Spaghetti Midwestern
Calliope (Issue 145 | Fall 2014)
From Your Hostess at the T & A Museum
Pushcart Prize XXXVII (Pushcart Press | 2013) and The Café Review (22 | Winter 2011)
The Causes of Cyclone Formation Aren't Well Understood
"This Morning" on Coldfront (July 6, 2012) and Prick of the Spindle (Vol. 6.1 | 2012)
Tiny Studies (Particle 3)
Prick of the Spindle (Vol. 6.1 | 2012)
Roadkill on the Path to Salvation
Rattle (Issue #36 | Winter 2011)
A Tour of Pompeii's Red Light District
Salamander (Issue 17.1 | Fall/Winter 2011-2012)
Abraham, Honestly
CutBank (Issue 75 | Spring 2011)
Sixth Finch (Spring 2011) and American Tinnitus Association (Fall 2011)
Somewhere a Town
Puerto del Sol (Vol. 46, Numbers 1 & 2 | Summer 2011)
Sixth Finch (Fall 2011)
Excerpts from the American Heritage Thesaurus of Smells
Booth (Print Vol. 2 | 2011; Online Vol. 2, Issue 6, Article 3 | 2010)
Poem on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
storySouth (Issue 29 | Spring 2010)
Drunken Boat (13 | 2010)
Crab Orchard Review (Vol. 10, No. 1 | 2005)
Bisexual Triptych*
Chiron Review (Issue 81 | Winter 2005)
Description of a Vase
Good Foot (6 | 2004)
Vase
Good Foot (6 | 2004)
Notes on a Memo That Began as Follows: I Wanted to Extend Reminders About Three Issues
Good Foot (6 | 2004)
An Amnesiac's Letter to Herself
Editor's Choice, James Wright Poetry Contest, Mid-American Review (Vo. 24, No. 2 | Spring 2003)