Gabrielle Bates is the author of Judas Goat (Tin House, 2023), Electric Lit’s Top Poetry Book of the Year and an NPR Best Book of 2023. Originally from Alabama, Bates currently lives in Seattle, where she works for Open Books: A Poem Emporium and cohosts the podcast The Poet Salon. Her work has been featured in The New Yorker, Poetry, Ploughshares; on the Between the Covers podcast; and elsewhere. She has served as visiting faculty for the University of Washington Rome Center and the Tin House Writers’ Workshops.
Rural Spaces
Fall 2024
Lyric Crisis
I wake with a texture-aversion to egg.On a list of to-dos my grandmother left:“Forgive [husband].”All afternoon I twistringlets of gray mosshanging from the boughs.Quiver at the very center of the […]
Rural Spaces
Fall 2024
One Two
The Kenyon Review · “One Two” by Gabrielle Bates I straddle you on an old dirt floor in June,a rabbit filling her belly with white petals.When the pastor says “one […]