Poetry

This is a partial list of poetry publications/readings/interviews by Noah Berlatsky (that’s me!) It will be updated sporadically. The picture is of Goose preparing to read my chapbook.

Full-Length

Gnarly Thumbs, forthcoming (Anxiety Press)

Brevity, 2025 (Nun Prophet Press)

Meaning Is Embarrassing, 2025 (Ranger)

Not Akhmatova, 2024 (Ben Yehuda Press) (Amazon)

—an essay about how jealousy led me to translate Akhmatova’s poems. (Cincinnati Review)

cover of not akhmatova; cover image is black and white photo of moscow street with eastern orthodox church in dramatic background

Chapbooks

Spamtoum, forthcoming 2025 (above/ground)

8x16&IX, forthcoming 2025 (LJMcD Communications)

The Sentient Flock, In Simpler and Sexier Times (Bainbridge Island Press) $5.00

Apologies to Basho, 2025 (Origami Poems Project) free download

Blurb Deals Now, 2024 (LJMcD Communications) free download

chaotic abstract black and white drawing with title and name in red; blurb deals now zine

Superintelligence, (LJMcD Communications) ($4.99/$12.00)

Superintelligence cover; illustration of bloggy eggplant thing with a black ominous scratchy shadow coming out of its head

Land the Waste, 2024 (LJMcD Communications) free download

Land the Waste cover; roman numerals down the side of a white cover

Send $19.99 for Supplements and Freedom, 2023 (above/ground press) $5

mysterious image of bird head guy in crosshatched circle

No Devotions, 2023 (LJMcD Communications) free download

No Devotions cover; black and white image of a dog with its butt towards the camera

It’s Fab, 2023 (Origami Poems Project) free download

image of black river like blog with weird blobby figure inside it; outside it there's a cluster of curvy lines; It's Fab cover

Honors

Pushcart Prize Nomination, Five Fleas, 2024—”Nothing”

Nomination for Touchstone Award for Haiku), 2023—”“Past Midnight”

Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Honorable Mention, 2022—“Send $19.99 for Supplements and Freedom”

Readings

From Not Akhmatova and other poems. (Stone Soup Poetry)

Regular(ish) Contributor

Ranger (2023- )

Blue Unicorn (2023-)

D.O.R. (2023-)

Synchronized Chaos (2023-)

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry (2023-)

dadakuku (2023-)

Poor Mojo’s Almanac (2005-2008)

Selected Poems

“The Last Time,” 2025 (Oatleaf)

“I’m grieving for,” and “It is a…,” 2025 (Quarter(ly) Press)

“Fascism Is,” 2025 (Urban Pigs Press)

“Things,” 2025 (Fish Barrel Review)

“Theft is Property” and “Career Advice”, 2024 (Midway Journal)

“Rumpelstiltskin,” “Quit I,” “Answers to Mary Oliver, “The Death of a Chair,” 2024 (Lothlorien)

“The Spider,” “No.4,” 2024 (Door Is a Jar)

“The Crow,” 2024 (Moss Puppy #7)

“Practice Makes Kenny G,” 2024 (Memoir Mixtape)

“Community,” 2024 (Recenter)

“Mexico City,” 2024 (Panoramas)

“Look…,” 2024 (Cold Moon Journal)

“True Love,” 2024 (Gabby & Min’s Literary Review)

“Traps”, 2024 (Moss Puppy #6)

“Best Selling Guns of 2022 on Gunbroker: Numbers Are In!” 2024 (Stone’s Throw)

“Someone Else,” 2024 (Dusie)

“U Hum,” 2024 (Red Ogre Review)

“Nominate,” 2024 (Oddball Magazine)

“King of Kong,” “Row Your Cab,” “Practice Makes Kenny G,” “Australia” and “Stuffed Unicorn,” 2023 (Touch the Donkey with interview)

“Don’t Say,” 2023 (Saint Paul Almanac)

“One Day Gravity Stopped,” 2023 (Worlds of Possibility)

“The Da Vinci Code Cracked,” 2023 (Oddball Magazine)

“Cyborg Song,” 2022 (Lickety Split)

“I Should Have Been Working But I Wrote This Instead,” 2022 (New Feathers Anthology)

“Not North, Not Northwest,” 2022, (Temz Review)

“No Scones”, 2022 (Welter)

“You Say Grief,” 2022 (3rd Wednesday Review)

“Mustache Longing,” 2013 (The Toast)

“Statement of Purpose,” 2001 (Chicago Review)

Interviews About Poetry

rob mcelennan’s blog, 2024

Talking About Strawberries, 2024

Radon Journal, 2023.

Touch the Donkey, 2023.

Poetry Criticism

On James Merrill and the queer carpet. (EIH)

On petro ck’s mouthouthoughts and retro dada against retro dada. (periodicities)

On AI poetry and Against Expression (New Humanist)

On Colin Channer’s Console (The Commons)

On Rita Dove’s “The Creation of the Venus of Willendorf” (EIH)

On Elizabeth R. McClellan’s “The Later Life of Herr Samsa’s Picture” (Split Lip)

“Find Editors Who Like You,” (LitMag News)

On failing as a poet (NBC Think)