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“Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.”
Lucille Clifton, The Book of Light


SELECTED Poems:

Pantoum: A Spell for Our Living” Poem of the Week, Split this Rock

Post-Election with an Ex-Lover” in The Hennepin Review, April 2022

My Mother and I Loiter in Ploughshares, January 2022

Ars Poetica in Foundry, November 2021

Black Womxn Are Violets” in The Cincinnati Review, October 2021

Before We Begin the Lowering” in Kenyon Review, June 2021

Rapture: A Burning in Black Warrior Review, selected as a finalist for the 2020 Black Warrior Review Poetry Contest, Issue 47.2, Spring 2021

How to Make Love While the World is Burning” in Tinderbox Poetry Journal, April 2021

Triptych in Black & Blue in Pleiades, January 2021

After Autumn” in Transition Magazine, December 2020

"Because We Were Poor and Unpretty" & "The Whales Chronicle Our Arrival" in New Delta Review, December 2020

Awake in Elizabeth City” finalist Solstice Literary Poetry Award, in Solstice Literary Magazine, August 2020

Heredity,” “Even When the Death is Brutal” & “My Brother Outruns” in PANK, June 2020

origin of the elements” in The Journal, February 2020

Sister’s Ghazal” in The BOILER, January 2020

Mothership” in Aesthetica Magazine, December 2019

my father hums and for the first time this is artin Mass Poetry, November 2019, Best of the Net Anthology Finalist 2020

Way of the World” in Southern Humanities Review, October 2019

Another Death” in Santa Clara Review, June 2019

"Second Skin" in Madcap Review, June 2016 Nominated for the 2017 Pushcart Prize

Non-Fiction:

“What To Read When You’re Healing” [Essay], The Rumpus, October 2023

“Hovering” [Essay] forthcoming in Mama, Martyrs, and Jezebels: An Anthology from Black Lawrence Press Anthology, February 2024

“Inheritance” [Essay] in GASHER Journal, April 2023

Mapping My PTSD In Wanda Maximoff’s Sitcom Universe” [Essay] in WearYourVoice Magazine, March 2021

“Upon Visiting My Mother’s Group Home” [Essay] in midnight & indigo, January 2021

The Uprooting” [Essay] in Solstice Literary Magazine, August 2020

Reviews:

“A Multi-Modal Study of Exquisite Blackness: Krista Franklin’s Too Much Midnight” [Review] in The Rumpus, September 2021

We’ve Got Mad Love: The Gods of Ourselves in Salt Body Shimmer” [Review] in EcoTheo Review, October 2020

Poetics of Home and the Assertion of Self in Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff” [Review] in Empty Mirror, April 2020

“The Haunting of Memory and History” [Review] in The Florida Review [Aquifer], June 2020

Interviews:

On navigating different kinds of creative relationships” in The Creative Independent, March 2024

“Writers’ Day Jobs: Tatiana Johnson-Boria” [Feature] in The Cincinnati Review, November 2021

MISC:

Tatiana Johnson-Boria’s CV