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Gabrielle Bates

Gabrielle Bates
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Gabrielle Bates

Originally from Birmingham, Alabama, Gabrielle Bates currently lives in Seattle, where she works for Open Books: A Poem Emporium, co-hosts the podcast The Poet Salon, and serves occasionally as faculty for the Tin House Writers' Workshops. Her debut poetry collection Judas Goat (Tin House, 2023) was named a Best Book of 2023 by NPR and Electric Lit and a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Ploughshares, POETRY, and Sewanee Review. A UK/Ireland edition of Judas Goat is forthcoming in October 2025 from the87press. Signed copies of Judas Goat can be ordered online through Open Books: A Poem Emporium. (Source)

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Poems by Gabrielle Bates

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The Dog by Gabrielle Bates

October 25, 2023
“There was no sense in me / that he was in some sort of aftermath.” — Gabrielle Bates

Poems curated by Gabrielle Bates

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Radio, Radio by Ben Doller

August 17, 2025
“She only / buries their bodies, their wings. / She packs the dirt tight around / their noodle necks & they shake / like long eyelashes in a hurricane.” — Ben Doller