Poem Links
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University of Pittsburgh Press 2025
- “Ode On Luck” – The New Yorker
- “Box Ode” – Rattle
- “Ode on Being a Little Drunk at Parties“ – Plume
- “Ode on the Rilke Metro Stop in the Paris of My Dreams” – Plume
- “Ode on Paradis and the Longing for a Place that Never Was” – Sixth Finch
- “Ode to Words for the Body” – Action, Spectacle
- “Ode to Juno, Queen of Heaven” – Action, Spectacle
- “Ode in Which Athena Tells Off Aphrodite at the Steak and Shake on Jackson Bluff Road” – The National Poetry Review
Holoholo 2021
- “Ode on Words for Parties (American Edition)” – The New Yorker
- “Ode on Killing Sadness” – American Poetry Review
- “Ode on the Brides of India” – Literary Matters
- “Ode to My Younger Self” – Literary Matters
- “Ode to My Prison” – Literary Matters
- “Ode on Anger, the Dali Lama, and Elliot’s Red Boots” – Vox Populi
Bird Odyssey 2018
- “Athena Ode” – The New Yorker
- “Letter to a Lost Friend” – Poetry Foundation
- “Ode to Lenin’s Overcoat, Over-the-Hill Tenors After the Opera, and The Dream of the Dacha” – New World Writing
- “Penelope’s Lament” – The New York Times Magazine
- “Elvis and Tolstoy Save the World”
- “New Orleans Dithyramb” – Vox Populi
“On the Street of Divine Love: New and Selected Poems 2014
- “Ode to the ‘Messiah’, Thai Horror Movies, and Everything I Can’t Believe”
- “Ode to Skimpy Clothes and August in the Deep South”
- “Ode to Knots, Noise, Waking Up at Three, and Falling Asleep Reading to My Id”
- “Ode to Hardware Stores”
- “Ode to Red and Speedy”
- “Ode to Forgetting the Year”
- “How to Pray”
- “Ode to Lil’ Kim in Florence”
- “Reading Can Kill You”
All-Night Lingo Tango 2009
- “Ode on Dictionaries”
- “Mambo Cadillac”
- “Ode on Satan’s Power”
- “Ode to Anglo Saxon, Film Noir, and the Hundred Thousand Anxieties that Plague Me Like Demons in a Medieval Christian Allegory”
Babel 2004
- “The Tawdry Masks of Women”
- “Thus Spake the Mockingbird”
- “Mockingbird on the Buddha”
- “Vex Me”
- “My Translation”
- “Cinerama”
- “O Deceitful Tongue”
- “Ode to American English”
- “Ode to Barbecue”
- “Ode to My 1977 Toyota”
The Alphabet of Desire 1999
- “Hatred”
- “The Word”
- “Ode on My Wasted Youth”
- “Ode to Untoward Dreams”
- “ode to the lost luggage warehouse at the rome airport”
Delirium 1995
- “Delirium”
- “St. Clare’s Underwear”
- “Barbara Hamby: Nose”
Barbara Hamby: Nose
Barbara Hamby: Nose
Interviews
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- Barbara Hamby’s American Odyssey by Paul Tayyar
- Splash of Red: Dual interview with David Kirby
- Interview with Superstition Review
- Interview with Guernica “A Muscle of Belief”: An Interview by Erica Wright
- Of Poets & Poetry, March | April, 2022 Profiles in Poetry