“Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.”
― Lucille Clifton, The Book of Light
SELECTED Poems:
“Pantoum: A Spell for Our Living” Poem of the Week, Split this Rock, February 2024
“Post-Election with an Ex-Lover” in The Hennepin Review, April 2022
“My Mother and I Loiter” in Ploughshares, January 2022
“Ars Poetica” in Foundry, November 2021
“Black Womxn Are Violets” in The Cincinnati Review, October 2021
“Before We Begin the Lowering” in Kenyon Review Online, June 2021
“Rapture: A Burning” in Black Warrior Review, selected as a finalist for the 2020 Black Warrior Review Poetry Contest, Issue 47.2, Spring 2021
“How to Make Love While the World is Burning” in Tinderbox Poetry Journal, April 2021
“Triptych in Black & Blue” in Pleiades, January 2021
“After Autumn” in Transition Magazine, December 2020
"Because We Were Poor and Unpretty" & "The Whales Chronicle Our Arrival" in New Delta Review, December 2020
“Awake in Elizabeth City” finalist Solstice Literary Poetry Award, in Solstice Literary Magazine, August 2020
“Heredity,” “Even When the Death is Brutal” & “My Brother Outruns” in PANK, June 2020
“origin of the elements” in The Journal, February 2020
“Sister’s Ghazal” in The BOILER, January 2020
“Mothership” in Aesthetica Magazine, December 2019
“my father hums and for the first time this is art” in Mass Poetry, November 2019, Best of the Net Anthology Finalist 2020
“Way of the World” in Southern Humanities Review, October 2019
“Another Death” in Santa Clara Review, June 2019
"Second Skin" in Madcap Review, June 2016 Nominated for the 2017 Pushcart Prize
Non-Fiction:
“Hovering” [Essay] in Mama, Martyrs, and Jezebels: An Anthology from Black Lawrence Press, Summer 2024
“What To Read When You’re Healing” [Essay] in The Rumpus, October 2023
“Inheritance” [Essay] in GASHER Journal, April 2023
“Mapping My PTSD In Wanda Maximoff’s Sitcom Universe” [Essay] in WearYourVoice Magazine, March 2021
“Upon Visiting My Mother’s Group Home” [Essay] in midnight & indigo, January 2021
“The Uprooting” [Essay] in Solstice Literary Magazine, August 2020
Interviews:
“Against luminous infinity: A Conversation with Tatiana Johnson-Boria about Nocturne in Joy” in Tupelo Quarterly, September 2024
“Turning Night’s Music into a Song of Both Mourning and Celebration: An Interview with Tatiana Johnson-Boria” [Interview] in Honey Literary, August 2024
“On navigating different kinds of creative relationships” in The Creative Independent, March 2024
“Writers’ Day Jobs: Tatiana Johnson-Boria” [Feature] in The Cincinnati Review, November 2021
Reviews:
“A Multi-Modal Study of Exquisite Blackness: Krista Franklin’s Too Much Midnight” [Review] in The Rumpus, September 2021
“We’ve Got Mad Love: The Gods of Ourselves in Salt Body Shimmer” [Review] in EcoTheo Review, October 2020
“Poetics of Home and the Assertion of Self in Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff” [Review] in Empty Mirror, April 2020
“The Haunting of Memory and History” [Review] in The Florida Review [Aquifer], June 2020