Tarik Dobbs

Tarik Dobbs is a 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellow. Their poems appear in the Best New Poets & Best of the Net anthologies. Tarik runs poetry.onl. Their debut poetry books, Nazar Boy (2024) & Dearbornistan (2026), are forthcoming from Haymarket Books.

Dearborn, MI, United States

Selected work (3 publications)

Poetry Magazine, 2023

Mad Honey"I didn’t get bees until violence. / Until the battlefields bittered // Our pollen, its gun-powered honey"

Poetry Magazine, 2022

nub“like the rest of us, i am an artifact of modern medicine.”

Poetry Magazine, 2021

Poem Where Every Bird Is a Drone“& a man’s fist pours a glass of champagne & now his bottle hisses & was it carbonation or the flutter of wings?”

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