American poet (born 1975)
Micah Ballard is a
poet born in
Baton Rouge, Louisiana on September 23, 1975. Since 1999 he has lived in
San Francisco with his wife, poet Sunnylyn Thibodeaux. Under the imprints Auguste Press and Lew Gallery Editions they have printed over 30 books by various poets and artists.
Ballard attended the Poetics Program at
New College of California in San Francisco’s
mission district where he worked with
David Meltzer,
Joanne Kyger, and
Tom Clark. From 2000-07 he directed the Humanities Program there.
In 2007 Ballard started the short-lived Lew Gallery with
Portland artist Jeff Butler and curated such notable shows as "Artworks" by David Meltzer and "Some of the Worlds Diamonds: Pieces from Living Rooms," a collaboration with painters and poets from San Francisco to
New York City.
Ballard has given poetry readings at a variety of venues, including the San Francisco State Poetry Center,
City Lights Bookstore, SOMArts,
Pacific Northwest College of Art, Denver Museum of Contemporary Art, and the
Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church. His poems have appeared in 6x6, Blue Book, Boog City, Damn the Caesars, Drunken Boat, Joe Brainard's Magazine, Le Palais de Nuit, LIT, Mirage #4 Period(ical), The Recluse, Try!, Vanitas, and the anthologies Bay Poetics and Evidence of the Paranormal, among others.
Currently, he is on the editorial board for the Contemporary Poetry Series at
University of New Orleans Press.
[1] Ballard co-directs the
Masters of Fine Arts in Writing Program at the
University of San Francisco.
[2]
Ballard's second full-length collection of poetry,
Waifs and Strays, was nominated for a
California Book Award.
[3]
FULL-LENGTH POETRY COLLECTIONS
CRITICISM
CHAPBOOKS
- Muddy Waters (State Champs, 2022)
- Selected Prose (2008-2019) (Blue Press, 2020)
- Daily Vigs (Bird & Beckett Books, 2019)
- Vesper Chimes (Gas Meter, 2014)
- Widows & Orphans (Lew Gallery, 2011)
- Darrell (Blue Press, 2007)
- New Poems (Blue Press, 2006)
- Evangeline Downs (
Ugly Duckling Presse, 2006)
- Scenes from the
Saragossa Manuscript (Snag Press, 2004)
- Emblematic (Old Gold, 2004)
- In the Kindness of Night (Blue Press, 2003)
- Bettina Coffin (Red Ant, 2003)
- Absinthian Journal (Old Gold, 2002)
- Chandeliers from the
Metairie Cemetery (Blue Press, 2001)
COLLABORATIVE BOOKS
- Poems from the New Winter Palace with Michael Carr (arrow as aarow, 2010)
- Easy Eden with Patrick James Dunagan (Push, 2009)
- Death Race V.S.O.P. with Will Yackulic &
Cedar Sigo (Red Ant, 2005)
- Wrought Iron & Burgundy with Sunnylyn Thibodeaux (Auguste Press, 2004)
- A Plywood Press Primer with
Cedar Sigo (Plywood Press, 2000)
ANTHOLOGY APPEARANCES
- Bay Poetics (Faux Press, 2005)
- Evidence of the Paranormal (Owl Press, 2003)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elQVU063Leo
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https://www.scribd.com/doc/31848115/selections-from-Micah-Ballard-s-Parish-Krewes
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http://reviews.coldfrontmag.com/parish-krewes-by-micha-ballard.html
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https://web.archive.org/web/20101214141318/http://welcometoboogcity.com/boogpdfs/bc40.pdf
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https://web.archive.org/web/20110708142130/http://www.cherrybleeds.com/bitches1/nov06.html
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http://galatearesurrection5.blogspot.com/2007/02/8-publications-by-micah-ballard.html
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http://galatearesurrection11.blogspot.com/2008/12/evangeline-downs-by-micah-ballard.html
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http://galatearesurrection3.blogspot.com/2006/08/six-chaps-by-ballard-thibodeaux.html
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http://galatearesurrection14.blogspot.com/2010/04/easy-eden-by-micah-ballard-james.html
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http://www.poetryproject.org/wp-content/uploads/nl_218_final.pdf
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http://poetryproject.org/tag/micah-ballard
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http://sites.google.com/site/gallagheronpoetry/