poetry — Tara Westmor

“Because I did not see Colleen,” Tar River Poetry, 2025
“I Imagine My Father Sitting on the Deck I Built for him Just Moments Before He Has The Heart Attack,” [print] Iron Horse Review, 2024 (finalist for NaPoMo prize)
“I’ve Come to a Conclusion About Happiness: I Want It,” Summerset Review, 2024
“when we fall out of morning,” The Shore, 2023
“mothers,” The Shore, 2023
“Lesser Muse,” The Shore, 2023
“Regardless of Disaster,” Midway Journal, 2023
“My Sister and I,” MUZZLE, 2022
“Mother, Ankle Deep” Water~Stone Review [print], 2022
“Interview Questions for the Beloved,” Ponder Review [print], 2021
“I Shouldn’t Write About My Insides,” dialogist, 2021
“These I Remember Most-” Arts & Letters [print], 2020
“The Audacity of Undoing,” Common Ground Review [print], 2019
“A darling,” Prairie Schooner [print], 2019
“Historical Record,” Prairie Schooner [print], 2019
“Promises in the Attic,” Prairie Schooner [print], 2019
“The shards, blooming,” Prairie Schooner [print], 2019
“Burial,” Hunger Mountain (runner-up for Ruth Stone Poetry Prize), 2019
“Precious/Vicious,” Cincinnati Review [print], 2018
“Wild,” Greensboro Review [print], 2018
“Only fools and dead men don’t change their mind,” Split Rock Review, 2017
“The trick is to hold your breath longer,” Driftwood Press [print], 2015
“Dear Sarah, the Paper Says It’s Over 60,” Gravel Magazine, 2015

“In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Tara Westmor,” interviewed by Larissa Larson at Water~Stone Review, 2023
“Ampersand Interview Series: Tara Westmor” interviewed by Darian Araiza-Samples at Arts&Letters, 2021