Selected Publications
Podcasts:
“Tiana Clark vs. Burnout” — VS Podcast // June 24, 2025
“Braver Than I Am” — Poetry Off the Shelf Podcast // March 18, 2025
My poem, “My Therapist Wants to Know About My Relationship to Work” was featured on the podcast Poetry Unbound with Pádraig Ó Tuama.
"Tiana Clark Reads Natasha Trethewey" — The New Yorker Poetry Podcast
Essays:
“Ryan Coogler’s ‘Sinners’ and the Art of the Deal With the Devil” — The New York Times
“Kendrick Lamar’s Halftime Show Was Radically Political, if You Knew Where to Look” — The New York Times
“The Incendiary Feeling of Freedom: On Phillis Wheatley Peters and the Poetry of Survival” —Lit Hub
New Ways of Surviving: Writing Through a Global Pandemic — Poets & Writers
The surreal anticlimax of getting divorced over videoconference — The Washington Post
We keep revising our idea of Emily Dickinson. We may never get her right. — The Washington Post
This Is What Black Burnout Feels Like — BuzzFeed
PCOS. POC. Poetry. & Pilates — Lenny Letter
Nina is Everywhere I Go — Oxford American
Tiana Clark on "Conversation with Phillis Wheatley #2" — Poetry Society of America
Tiana Clark: How I Wrote “BBHMM” — The Adroit Journal
Poems:
“Maybe in Another Life” —The New Yorker
“After the Reading” —Poets.org
“Considering Roe v. Wade, Letters to the Black Body” —The Atlantic
“The Terror of New Love!” — The New England Review
“Broken Sestina Reaching for Black Joy” — The Atlantic
“I Stare at a Cormorant” — The Atlantic
"Nashville" — The New Yorker
"My Therapist Wants to Know About My Relationship to Work" — Poetry Magazine
"The First Black Bachelorette" — Kenyon Review (an excerpt is linked)
“Broken Ode for the Epigraph” — Tin House Online
“Indeed Hotter for Me are the Joys of the Lord” — Missouri Review
“The Rime of Nina Simone” Southern Cultures
"Tim" — Frontier Poetry Open Award
"Virtue Signaling: Wisconsin" — Los Angeles Review
"800 Days: Libation" — Poem-a-Day on July 20, 2017, by the Academy of American Poets.
"Soil Horizon" — 2016 Academy of American Poets Vanderbilt University Prize, selected by T.R. Hummer.
"Bear Witness" —Thrush
"BBHMM" —The Journal
"Ways to be Saved" — The Rumpus
"I Started Praying for You" — American Poetry Review
"A Psalm for the One" — The Adroit Journal
"After Orpheus" —The Arkansas International
"Equilibrium" — 2015 Rattle Poetry Prize winner
"BNA to LAX" —The Offing
"How to Find the Center of a Circle" & "Broken Ghazal for Walter Scott" — Muzzle Magazine