Tina Barr's book of poems, The Gathering Eye, won the Editors Prize at Tupelo Press out of a group of over 1,000 manuscripts, and was released in January 2004, (pub date 2003). Her poems have been published in American Poetry Review, The Antioch Review, boundary 2, Boulevard, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Chelsea, Crazyhorse, The Crab Orchard Review, The Harvard Review, Louisiana Literature, Notre Dame Review, The Paris Review, Poetry, Poetry Northwest, The Southern Review, Southwest Review, and elsewhere. She previously published three chapbooks, all winners of awards. At Dusk on Naskeag Point won the Flume Press Award and was published in 1984. The Fugitive Eye (1997) won the Painted Bride Quarterly Contest, judged by Yusef Komunyakaa. Red Land, Black Land, poems on women in Cairo, won the Longleaf Press Contest (2002). She has received Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, The MacDowell Colony, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Tennessee Arts Commission. She directs the Creative Writing Program at Rhodes College, in Memphis, Tennessee. Vita (PDF)
1995, Ph.D., English, Temple University - Dissertation: The War of Myths: From Modernist Archetype to Postmodernist Cartoon.
1987, M.A., Literature, Temple University
1982, M.F.A., Creative Writing: Poetry and Translation, Columbia University
1977, B.A., Sarah Lawrence College
1975, Academic semester in Paris
- English 200 - INTRODUCTION TO POETRY WRITING
- English 265 - TOPIC:AFRICAN AMERICAN POETRY
- English 285 - TEXT AND CONTEXT
- English 300 - ADVANCED POETRY WORKSHOP I
- English 310 - ADVANCED POETRY WORKSHOP II
- English 373 - DEVELOPMNTS IN CONT LITERATURE
- English 481 - SENIOR WRITING PROJECT
POETRY - Books
The Gathering Eye, winner of the Tupelo Press Editor’s Award. Dorset, Vermont: Tupelo Press, 2003.POETRY - Chapbooks
Red Land, Black Land, winner of the 2002 Longleaf Press Chapbook Contest. Fayetteville: Methodist College Press, 2002.The Fugitive Eye, winner of 1996 Painted Bride Quarterly Poetry Chapbook Contest, selected by Yusef Komunyakaa. Philadelphia: Painted Bride Quarterly Press, 1997.
At Dusk on Naskeag Point, winner of the Flume Press Annual Poetry Chapbook Contest, selected by David Wojahn. Chico, California: Flume Press, 1984.
POETRY – Anthologies, selected publications while at Rhodes College
“Circe,” “Entrenched.” A Different Latitude: An Anthology of Poetry. Ed. Hank Bernstein. Lawrenceville, NJ: Delaware Valley Poets, Inc., 1999. 5-7.
“Three Nectarines.” Meridian Bound. Philadelphia: Meridian Writers Collective, 2000. 264.
“The Purpose of Jewelry.” Notre Dame Review: The First Ten Years. Notre Dame, IN: forthcoming.
“The Purpose of Jewelry,” “Mahmoud abd El Ghaffar’s,” “On the Loom.” Deep Travel: Contemporary Poets Abroad. Rome, GA, Ninebark Press 2007: 27-34.
POETRY - Literary Magazines, Publications while at Rhodes College
“White Glove.” Philadelphia Inquirer 2, Mar. 1997: H4.
“Three Nectarines.” Boulevard 12-3 (1997): 135.
“The Woman in the Carpet.” American Poetry Review Philly Edition (Philadelphia Weekly) 1, Oct. 1997: 11.
“A Good Sport.” American Poetry Review March/April 1998: 17.
“Creator.” Brilliant Corners 2.2 (1998): 8.
“Bellydancer,” “Black Angels.” One Trick Pony 3 (1998): 35-37.
“Ministry.” Southwest Review 83.1 (1998): 93-94.
“Canary.” The Harvard Review 15 (1998): 36-37.
“A Letting of the Self.” The Exchange 7 (1998): 10
“Delta.” Poems & Plays 6 (1999): 43-44.
“Annunciation.” West Branch 44 (1999): 102.
“Here in Tennesse.” The Exchange 9 (1999): 5
“Aladdin’s Lamp.” Chelsea 68 (2000): 118-119.
“Under Flame Trees,” “Bottom,” “Markets,” “Shangri La.” Boundary 2 28.1 (2001):107-119.
“The Gardens of Babylon,” “Voice from Mississippi.” Reed Magazine. 54 (2001): 146-147.
“Under the Lamp,” “Eucharist,” The Southern Review 37.4 (2001): 632-634.
“Infusion,” “True Religion,” Crab Orchard Review 6.2 (2001): 48-50.
“The Purpose of Jewelry,” Notre Dame Review 14 (2002): 91-92.
“Audentes Fortuna Juvat,” Poems and Plays 8 (2001): 33-34.
“Honey,” The Antioch Review 60.2 (2002): 270.
“Mashrabeyah,” Flyway (Arabic American Writing) 7.2-7.3 (2002): 36.
“Scars,” “The Golden Road,” “Cotton,” The Drunken Boat (an online publication) Winter 2003.
“Friendlies,” Southern Gothic (an online publication) Summer 2005.
“Refuge,” “Pilgrim,” Arts & Letters, 15 (2006): 120-122.
“Hour of the Cardinals,” The Antioch Review 65:2 (2007): 319.
“Thieves,” Crab Orchard Review 12:1 (2007): 22.
“Shiny Brite,” “In the Kaleidoscope’s Chamber,” Annals of Scholarship (forthcoming)