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Tiana Clark

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Los Angeles, CA, The United States

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Poetry, Memoir

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Tiana Clark is the author of the poetry collection, I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), winner of the 2017 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, and Equilibrium (Bull City Press, 2016), selected by Afaa Michael Weaver for the 2016 Frost Place Chapbook Competition. Clark is a winner for the 2020 Kate Tufts Discovery Award (Claremont Graduate University), a 2019 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow, and the 2015 Rattle Poetry Prize. She is a recipient of the 2021-2022 Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship and 2019 Pushcart Prize. Clark is the 2017-2018 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing. She is the recipient of scholarships and fellowships ...more

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Average rating: 4.27 · 2,464 ratings · 491 reviews · 13 distinct works • Similar authors

	I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (Pitt Poetry Series) 4.52 avg rating — 812 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scorched Earth: Poems 4.17 avg rating — 633 ratings — published 2025 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sex and the Single Woman: 24 Writers Reimagine Helen Gurley Brown's Cult Classic by Eliza Smith (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Haley Swanson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Brooke Hauser (Contributor) 3.81 avg rating — 433 ratings — published 2022 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Measure of Belonging: Writers of Color on the New American South by Cinelle Barnes (Goodreads Author) (Editor, Contributor), Jaswinder Bolina (Contributor), Regina N. Bradley (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.28 avg rating — 362 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Equilibrium 4.53 avg rating — 190 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry by Joanne V. Gabbin (Editor), Lauren K. Alleyne (Editor), Rita Dove (Foreword) 4.45 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bettering American Poetry, Volume 2 by Amy King (Goodreads Author), Jayy Dodd (Editor), Camile Rankine (Editor) 4.57 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dinosauři v ulicích: Antologie současné americké poezie by Jan Zikmund (Editor), Milan Děžinský (Translator), Thea Radka Harris (Translator) 4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rattle #52, Summer 2016 by The Rattle Foundation, Alan Fox (Editor in Chief, Contributor), Timothy Green (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Breaking into Blossom: Poems with Extraordinary Endings by Luke Hankins (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Nomi Stone (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kaveh Akbar (Contributor) 4.63 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Tiana Clark and 1 other person liked Jackie Paiz's review of Scorched Earth: Poems: "Thank you to Atria Books \| Washington Square press for providing me a copy of this ARC! Scorched Earth was a visceral, beautiful, and at times tragic collection of poems. While reading I felt teleported back to feeling isolation during COVID, heartbr" Read more of this review »
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Tiana Clark and 2 other people liked Mya Matteo's review of Scorched Earth: Poems: "brutally honest and unflinching look at divorce, heartbreak, self-worth, and Blackness throughout it all. the first poem, Proof, is an absolute knockout. “I wanted / to feel the negotiation of pain besides the present pain” “Pleasure toggles there / li" Read more of this review »
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Tiana Clark and 4 other people liked Melissa's review of Scorched Earth: Poems: "A beautiful and vulnerable, lyrical, poetry collection. I really enjoyed this one. I think I need to let this one sink in a bit more before doing a proper review. These are some really beautiful and honest poems and I will be thinking about them for a w" Read more of this review »
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Tiana Clark and 5 other people liked Ingrid's review of Scorched Earth: Poems: "A really excellent book of poetry from a real poet's poet. I loved reading poems from someone who's such a scholar of the craft. While I have a bit of pandemic-in-literature/poetry fatigue, Clark's writing is so fresh and singular (and punchy and rel" Read more of this review »
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“This is the restless cardboard box I carry from room to room, house to house filled with papers I do not know how to sort. How do you separate trash from trash? Everything looks like something else-something I just might need. Someday right?”
― Tiana Clark, I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood

tags: hoarding, papers, sentimental, trash

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“You have to make love to the damage in your mind.”
― Tiana Clark, I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood

tags: love, mental-health, mind

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“I’ve been writing around the rim
of the word like the blunted tip of a spent bullet.”
― Tiana Clark

tags: bullet, writing

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