BOOKS
Judas Goat (Tin House, January 24, 2023)
REVIEWS OF JUDAS GOAT
Electric Lit Top 4 Poetry Collections of the Year
NPR "Books We Love: Best Books of 2023"
The New York Times Book Review 'The Shortlist': "From Newcomers and Veterans, Four New Poetry Books Worth Your Time"
Library Journal Starred Review: "Bates, Gabrielle. Judas Goat: Poems."
The Rumpus "A Worn Violence: On Gabrielle Bates’ Judas Goat"
Book Riot "Reflecting on Winter's Poetry"
Poetry Foundation 2023 Staff Picks: Judas Goat
Mid-American Review “Judas Goat by Gabrielle Bates”
ANMLY "For the (Complex) Image: A Review of Gabrielle Bates' Judas Goat"
Chicago Review of Books "The Price of Survival in 'Judas Goat'"
Garden & Gun "Poetry in Motion: Three New Collections Propel Southern Verse Forward" (print)
The Arkansas International "Judas Goat"
Publishers Weekly "Judas Goat"
West Trade Review "Violence and Domestication in Judas Goat'
Autostraddle "'Judas Goat” by Gabrielle Bates Made Me Start Writing Again"
Poetry Foundation "Judas Goat"
The Millions "Must-Read Poetry: Winter 2023"
Tupelo Quarterly "'The Poem Must Be Mess Because We Love Each Other:' Negotiating Self-Story... in Gabrielle Bates’s Judas Goat"
Stanford Humanities Center "Our Book Picks for 2023"
Commonweal Magazine "The Year in Books: My Top Choices of 2023"
The Poetry Question "Judas Goat"
Cunning Folk "What We Are Reading: Judas Goat"
Sage Cigarettes Magazine "Love and Other Self-Reckoning in the American South: A Review of Gabrielle Bates’ Judas Goat"
The Dawn Review "Review of Gabrielle Bates's Judas Goat."
Powell's City of Books "2023 Book Preview"
Southern Review of Books “The Best Southern Books of January 2023”
Outsellers "Judas Goat Poems: Book Review"
Carousel Magazine "USEREVIEW 112 (Capsule): Judas Goat"
Curiosity & Ritual "Reading/watching/listening: Judas Goat"
Keke "Close Out Poetry Month With These Four New Poetry Books"
ANTHOLOGIES
The Southern Poetry Anthology Vol. X, Alabama (Texas Review Press, 2023), ed. Taylor Byas | 5 Poems: "Strawberries," "Dear Birmingham," "Sabbath," "In the Dream in Which I Am a Widow," & "Anniversary"
Cascadia: A Field Guide through Art, Ecology & Poetry (Mountaineers Books, 2023), ed. Elizabeth Bradfield | “A backward looping arrow"
I Sing the Salmon Home (Empty Bowl Press, 2023), ed. Rena Priest | “Salmon"
Buzz Words: Poems About Insects, Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets (Knopf, 2021), ed. Harold Schechter & Kimiko Hahn | “Fruit Flies"
Evergreen: Grim Tales & Verses from the Gloomy Northwest (Scablands Books, 2021), ed. Sharma Shields & Maya Jewell Zeller | “Excerpt from In the Circus”
BAX: Best American Experimental Writing 2020, ed. Carmen Maria Machado & Joyelle McSweeney | “Excerpt from In the Circus”
Best of the Net 2019, ed. Eloisa Amezcua | “Excerpt from In the Circus”
Best of the Net 2015, ed. Bruce Bond | "Carousel"
POEMS
Kenyon Review | "One Two" & "Lyric Crisis" (forthcoming)
The Slowdown | "Salmon" (reprint) February 2023
Literary Hub | "Ownership" (reprint) January 2023
Poetry Magazine | "Mothers" & "The Lucky Ones" November 2022
Northwest Review | "Saint of Ongoingness" December 2022
The Rumpus | "Garden" December 2022
Washington Square Review | "Rosification" December 2022
Copper Nickel | "Mama" October 2022
NECK | "The Greatest Show on Earth" August 2022
Massachusetts Review "Eastern Washington Diptych" March 2022
Image | "Sabbath" January 2022
Poetry Magazine | "So We Must Meet Apart" (collaboration with Jennifer S. Cheng) November 2021
The New Yorker | "In the Dream in Which I am a Widow" May 2021
Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day | "Dear Birmingham" October 2021
The Oxonian Review | "Compassionate Withdrawal" February 2021
American Chordata | "Effigy" September 2021
Interim | "The Bridge" September 15, 2021
American Poetry Review | "Salmon" May 2021
Big Lucks | "'Little Lamb" & "Her Second Horn, the Only Horn She Has Left" May 2021
The Literary Review | "'Person' Comes from 'Mask'" & "Mediated Experience"
April 2021
Ploughshares | "Intro to Theater" April 2021
Cordella | "Tell Me What Its Means" & "The Three Fates" April 2021
Catapult | "Time Lapse" March 2021
Midst | "'Ownership" [for J] February 2021
Poetry Magazine | "The Mentor" February 2020
Virginia Quarterly Review | 3 Poems: "Visitation," "Southside," & "Dance
Party in the Public Glasshouse" December 2019
Ambit | "And Even After All That, No Epiphany" November 2019
Poetry Daily | "Judas" (reprint) October 2019
The Offing | "The Dog" September 2019
Cincinnati Review | "Judas" & "Neighbors" May 2019
Adroit Journal | "How Judas Died" (reprint), "Carousel" (reprint) & "Ars
Poetica" March 2019
Harvard Advocate | "Strawberries" (reprint) March 2019
Mississippi Review | 3 Poems: "Now No More Than a Bit of Mind,"
"Birmingham / Mars" & "The Good Fight" February 2019
Gulf Coast | "How Judas Died" December 2018
New Yorker | "Strawberries" June 2018
Shallow Ends | "Blessing" May 2018
RHINO | "Everything is Everything" April 2018
Alaska Quarterly Review | 3 Poems: "Illusion," "The Masters" & "Pastoral"
2017
Bennington Review | "Repentance Circles Itself Before Sleeping" &
"Judas Goat" June 2017
New England Review | "Anniversary" June 2017
Adroit Journal | "The Gates" March 2017
Birdfeast | "Ice Tithes" March 2017
Missouri Review Poem of the Week | "Gretel Was an Only Child"
October 2016
Best of the Net 2015 | "Carousel" (reprint) 2015
Mid-American Review | "Monologue with a Flat Hand" 2017
Passages North | "Augury for a Younger Brother" and "Cinderella as Told by Grackles" February 2017
Smartish Pace | 3 Poems: "Ode to Everything But My Tic Disorder," "The
Priests" & "Who" February 2017
Day One | "Snow nobody has walked on: Cento" July 2016
New South | "Nightmare" November 2016
Thrush | "Sonnet for the Saints of Night Day Parade" November 2015
The Journal | "The Animals We Are" Fall 2015
Guernica | "Carousel" April 2015
Radar Poetry | "Persephone in Alabama with a Pomegranate" April 2015
Pine Hills Review | "2:00 am" February 2015
Poetry on Buses | "When the War is Over" December 14, 2014
Southern Humanities Review | "Disintegration" 2014
Redactions | "Ode to the Pecking Order of Mares" 2014
-----. "Infatuation" 2015
Rattle | "Of the Lamp, for Robin Williams" August 2014
Cactus Heart | "Chickadees" June 2014
Broadsided Press | "This is life" March 2014
POETRY COMICS
Poetry Magazine | Excerpt from illustrated version of Adrienne Raphel's
"Imogen and the Beginning of Color." February 2019
Best American Experimental Writing (BAX) 2019 | In the Circus
The Southeast Review | excerpt from In the Circus (online) & excerpt from
illustrated version of Adrienne Raphel's "Imogen and the Beginning of
Color" (print). August 2018
Nashville Review | Excerpt from illustrated version of Adrienne Raphel's
"Imogen and the Beginning of Color." April 2018
jubilat | Excerpt from illustrated version of Adrienne Raphel's "Imogen and the Beginning of Color." January 2018
Washington Square | excerpt from In the Circus. Spring 2017
Poetry Magazine | excerpt from In the Circus. December 2016
Black Warrior Review | "This Afternoon We Are All Arachnes." October 2016
Poetry Northwest | Back/Draft response to Carl Phillips' "More Tenderly...".
Summer/Fall 2016
Gigantic Sequins | "As When Gone Wildabouting." 2015
PROSE + VISUAL PROSE
Poetry Northwest The Pursuit of It: Maggie Nelson's On Freedom. Sept 2021
The Brooklyn Rail Antonia Contro and Elizabeth Bradfield's Theorem. April 2021
Pleiades Visual Review: Gabrielle Bates on Diannely Antigua's Ugly Music May 2020
The Seventh Wave Featured Artist for "What We Lose" May 2019
POETRY Harriet Blog Poetry Comics: You Must Look Her in Both Her Eyes Feb 2019
Poetry Northwest Now I Feel I Am On My Way: Gabrielle Bates on Mary Ruefle and Dunce. Nov 2019.
-----. A Distrust of the Art: A Close Reading of Three Visual Poems and Poetry Comics. Feb 2018
-----."Help me I'm partial"—On Montreux Rotholtz's Unmark. March 2018
Seattle Arts and Lectures | Thinking Outside the Book: Tyehimba Jess and OLIO. March 2018
-----. On Ross Gay and CATALOG OF UNABASHED GRATITUDE
-----. On Claudia Rankine and CITIZEN May 2015
Southern Humanities Review | The Glory Gets by Honoreé Fanone Jeffers. Sept 2015
Prairie Schooner | Briefly Noted. "Keetje Kuipers. The Keys to the Jail." June 2014
INTERVIEWS & FEATURES
The Sewanee Review "Gabrielle Bates" podcast
Between the Covers "Gabrielle Bates : Judas Goat" podcast & transcript
CutBank "A Conversation Between Gabrielle Bates and Abigail Raley"
Shondaland "An Unlikely Animal is at the Center of Gabrielle Bates' Debut Poetry Collection"
Southern Review of Books "Gabrielle Bates on Interiority and Indebtedness to the Image"
The Oxonian Review "An Interview with Gabrielle Bates"
Keep the Channel Open "Episode 137 - Gabrielle Bates"
Poetry Society of America "Gabrielle Bates on 'In the Dream in Which I am a Widow': In Their Own Words"
Adroit Journal "A Conversation with Gabrielle Bates"
Palette Poetry Legacy Suite #8: Judas Goat by Gabrielle Bates: Figures, Faith, & Tenderness
Napkin Poetry Review An Invitation for Many Lives: An Interview with Gabrielle Bates
Brooklyn Poets Poet of the Week: Gabrielle Bates
Keep the Channel Open Podcast Conversation about Brigit Pegeen Kelly's SONG
Micro Podcast Nada Faris x Gabrielle Bates x torrin a. greathouse
The Rumpus "Process Over Product: Midst and Craft in the Real World" by April Yee, with a close reading of Gabrielle Bates's poem "Ownership"
Adroit Journal Illustrated Conversation with Keetje Kuipers
Harvard Advocate Women's Issue podcast, interviewed by Sabrina Li
Frontier Poetry Editors Talk Poetry Acceptances: Gabrielle Bates, the Seattle Review
fields "Art in Conversation" podcast, interviewed by Manola Secaira
The Poetry Vlog Gabrielle Bates on Bojack Horseman, Poetry Comics, and Her Recent Work. Interviewed by Chelsea Grimmer
Trains, Planes, and Books Gabrielle Bates, Interviewed by Marlene Jäger. In English (here) and German (here)
AWARDS / HONORS
2023
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Fellowship in Poetry
Sewanee Writers' Conference, Walter E. Dakin Fellowship in Poetry
Judge for Edna Meudt Poetry Book Award
2022
Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenburg Fellowship Finalist
2021
Sewanee Review Poetry Contest Finalist
2019
Adroit Journal Gregory Djanikian Scholarship
Jack Straw Writers Fellowship
Pleiades Press Visual Poetry Prize Finalist
Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Work/Study Scholarship
2018
Final Judge of the Gigantic Sequins Poetry Comic Contest
Final Judge of the Zelda Fitzgerald Museum Poetry Contest
Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Work/Study Scholarship
2017
GAP Grant, Artist Trust, Washington State
Jane Dodge Fellowship, Mineral School Artist Residency
Made at Hugo House Fellowship (2016 - 2017)
Pushcart Prize nomination, by Passages North
Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Work/Study Scholarship
2016
Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Waiter Scholarship
2015
Indiana Review Poetry Prize Finalist
Gigantic Sequins Poetry Comic Contest, 1st Place
Amazon Publishing Grant Fellowship
Best of the Net Anthology Inclusion, for "Carousel"
nominated by Guernica
Fairy Tale Review Poetry Contest Finalist
Nelson Bentley Fellowship
Awesome Foundation Grant Recipient
2014
Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets Fellowship