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, 2025 (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)
Chapbooks
Every Hyphenated Word in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, forthcoming 2025 (Ghost City Press)
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
Superintelligence, (LJMcD Communications) ($4.99/$12.00)
Land the Waste, 2024 (LJMcD Communications) free download
Send $19.99 for Supplements and Freedom, 2023 (above/ground press) $5
No Devotions, 2023 (LJMcD Communications) free download
It’s Fab, 2023 (Origami Poems Project) free download
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
Four poems from different literary magazines. (Periodicities.)
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
“Invasion of the Founding Fathers,”—a short story! (Lothlorien)
“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)