Barbara Hamby

She was born in New Orleans and raised in Hawaii. Her poems have been printed in numerous publications and her first book of poetry, Delirium (1995), received literary recognition. She lives with her husband and fellow poet David Kirby in Tallahassee, Florida, where she is a writer-in-residence in the Creative Writing Program, and he a professor, both with the English Department at Florida State University.

• Collections * • The Alphabet of Desire (New York: New York University Press, 1999, paperback) • Babel: poems (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004) • All-Night Lingo Tango: poems (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009) • On the Street of Divine Love: New and Selected Poems (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014) • Bird Odyssey (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018) • Holoholo (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021, ISBN 9780822966586) • Anthologies (edited) • Seriously Funny: poetry anthology edited with David Kirby (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2010) • List of poems • Title — |Year — |First published — |Reprinted/collected • Athena ode — 2016 • Ode on luck — 2022

• Collections • Lester Higata's 20th Century: stories (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2010)

• On the Street of Divine Love • On the Street of Divine Love: New and Selected Poems, New York Journal of Books