POEMS
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
Washington Square Review | "Rosification" forthcoming
NECK | "The Greatest Show on Earth" forthcoming
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'" and "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 11, 2021
Midst | "'Ownership" [for J] February 9, 2021
Poetry Magazine | "The Mentor" February 2020
Virginia Quarterly Review | 3 Poems: "Visitation," "Southside," and "Dance
Party in the Public Glasshouse" December 2019
Ambit | "And Even After All That, No Epiphany" November 2019
Poetry Daily | "Judas" (reprint) October 11, 2019
The Offing | "The Dog" September 4, 2019
Cincinnati Review | "Judas" and "Neighbors" (May 2019)
Adroit Journal | "How Judas Died" (reprint), "Carousel" (reprint), and "Ars
Poetica" March 2019
Harvard Advocate | "Strawberries" (reprint) March 2019
Mississippi Review | 3 Poems: "Now No More Than a Bit of Mind,"
"Birmingham / Mars," and "The Good Fight" February 2019
Gulf Coast | "How Judas Died" December 2018
New Yorker | "Strawberries" June 4, 2018
Shallow Ends | "Blessing" May 10, 2018
RHINO | "Everything is Everything" April 2018
Alaska Quarterly Review | 3 Poems: "Illusion," "The Masters," and "Pastoral" 2017
Bennington Review | "Repentance Circles Itself Before Sleeping" and
"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" 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," and "Who" February 2017
Day One | "Snow nobody has walked on: Cento" July 13, 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 1, 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 February 2019
Poetry Northwest Now I Feel I Am On My Way: Gabrielle Bates on Mary Ruefle and Dunce. November 2019.
-----. A Distrust of the Art: A Close Reading of Three Visual Poems and Poetry Comics. February 2018
-----."Help me I'm partial"—On Montreux Rotholtz's Unmark. March 2018
-----.“Sexy & Self-Quarrelsome”—On Zoe Dzunko’s Selfless. March 2017
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. September 2015
Prairie Schooner | Briefly Noted. "Keetje Kuipers. The Keys to the Jail." June 2014
INTERVIEWS, FEATURES, MEDIA APPEARANCES
Napkin Poetry Review An Invitation for Many Lives: An Interview with Gabrielle Bates
Crosscut Seattle's Open Books finds new home in Pioneer Square
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
2021
Sewanee Review Poetry Contest Finalist
2019
Adroit Journal Gregory Djanikian Scholarship
Jack Straw Writers Fellowship
Finalist for Pleiades Press Visual Poetry Prize
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