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Barbara Hamby

Barbara Hamby’s eighth book of poems is Burn (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2025). Poems in that book were first published in The New Yorker, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, and Plume.

 

  • Two Poems

    My brain is such a bully—wash your face, comb your hair,

  • Sexy Beast: The Song of Solomon by Barbara Hamby

    Barbara Hamby combines exemplary exegetical skills with colorful commentary in her analysis of the biblical poem, The Song of Songs in her essay  titled “Sexy Beast, The Song of Solomon.”
    Plume Issue #150 February 2024

  • Girl Talk: How a Sumerian Princess Jumpstarted Poetry by Barbara Hamby

    When I was a girl, I’d fantasize about the lives of biblical women—Queen Esther, Ruth, Jezebel, Bathsheba, the Queen of Sheba, Mary Magdalene.
    Issue #147 November 2023

  • Olympia

    The ancient Greeks knew how to pick out a sacred spot,

  • Ode to Roadside Shrines

    I first see you in Crete, little boxes on four skinny legs,

  • Toshno

    Marina is trying to describe Raskolnikov’s interior state

  • How to Pray

    Falling down on your knees is the easy part, like drinking