Andrea Ballou | Poet
Other Times, Midnight
Persea Books, 2025
These intimate meditations explore the aftermath of loss—divorce, death, and departures. How do we contend with grief, and trauma? Fighting "an impulse to not speak," Ballou wields language as both tool and weapon. Caught “in the mouth of midnight” her poems urge us toward the fullness of being human.
Poems
Barrow Street winter 2017/18
"On Hearing My Friend Has Cancer"
Black Rabbit Quarterly, No. 4
"A Brief History of War, from Rome to Present Day"
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Copper Nickel number 22 / spring 2016
"Retrato de Viuda con Caballero Andante"
"Son in This Story the Oaks Are Tremendous"
"How We Manage Since Father Died"
FIELD number 94 / spring 2016 & number 99 / fall 2018
"Love Inside the Snow Globe"
"Origin of Speech"
"What the Wooden Duck Says At Night When I Can't Sleep"
"The Blue Hills"
Plume
"Soldier's Wife in the Aftermath"
Lily Poetry Review vol 1 issue 1 / winter 2019
"In the Land of Father-Is-Gone"
"Portrait of Soldier with Mind Ajar"
The Ilanot Review
"Famine Road"
The Missouri Review
"How Rebecca Got Lifted Up"
https://www.missourireview.com/andrea-read-how-rebecca-got-lifted-up/
Tupelo Quarterly
"Fox Wants Death, Rabbit Wants Flames of Thread"
http://www.tupeloquarterly.com/announcing-the-winner-of-the-tq11-call-and-response-poetry-contest/
REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS
Plume
Review of The Gospel of Wildflower and Weeds, by Orlando Ricardo Menes
Issue #134 October 2022
Plume
Review of Listen, by Steven Cramer
https://plumepoetry.com/review-of-steven-cramers-listen-by-andrea-read/
Issue #116 April 2021
"Why We Write," Lesley University
Interview with Steven Cramer
https://lesley.edu/article/boston-poet-steven-cramer-on-writing-rewriting-and-adaptation
2021