Publications/Interviews

BOOKS:

Current (Lily Poetry Review Books) 2026

What Drifted Here (Cherry Grove Collections) 2023

Between the Hours (Finishing Line Press) 2022

Take Five, Prose Poems by 5 Poets (Finishing Line, 2020)

A Bridge of Voices: Contemporary Slovene Poetry and Poetics (Bridges Press, 2017)

Once in Every Language (Kelsay, 2017)

Fire Road (Dream Horse Press 2013)

SRECKO KOSOVEL: Look Back, Look Ahead: The Selected Poems (Ugly Duckling Presse 2010) co-translated with Ana Jelnikar

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

POEMS

Refuge in On the Seawall, January 2026

School in eMerge September 2025

I wake to be unlocked, Invisible Home, Friedrich’s Monk, Onions in Ninth Heaven 2025

“Elegy for a Scrap” in Poetry Porch 2025

“Epistle to the Late Fall Weeds” and “Found Among the Lost” 2River Spring 2025

4 Poems in Poetry Porch Spring 2024
       Address Book
       Questions for a Bench on a Hill
       Is that a God you are speaking to?
       Patch of Woods

“To a Further Blossoming” in eMerge Magazine Spring 2024

“His Sign Asks for Water” in eMerge Magazine Winter 2024

Seven Translations by Miriam Drev, tr. by the author and Barbara Siegel Carlson in Ezra Vol. 15 September 2023

“The Scent” in The Bluebird Word  August 2023

“After a Terrorist Attack in Verse Daily 6/5/23

 “The Current,” “Some Unearthly Grace” & “The Way of Leaves in Poetry Porch Spring 2023 

“Uninhabited Regions,” “Coyote Prints,” “August My Body,” and “Lessening” in Avatar Review 24 Fall 2022

“A Forest Remnant” in Poetry Porch 2022

“The Fog is Adrift” in Solstice Winter 2021

“The Face” in Glimpse Spring 2021; “Late August” in Glimpse Fall 2021

“Voices in Leave,” “The Speech of Trees,” Beech in the Public Garden” and “To an Asylum Seeker” in Porch Porch 2021

“Pip in the Waves” in American Journal of Poetry 2020

“Still,” “Pinhole,” “Arthur (Boo) Radley Speaks” and “Intimate Stranger” in Poetry Porch 2020

“Joseph Cornell Tries to Explain” in Lily Poetry Review 2019 and reprinted in Poems2go

Three Poems     http://vrabecanarhist.eu/barbara-siegel-carlson-poezija/

“A Resonant Space” in Cortland Review

“The Deepening” in Solstice Spring 2018

“The Wild Part” in Two Cities

“Owl Mountains,”  “Descent”  in Poetry Porch Spring 2017

“On Silence” – Lake Effect Spring 2017

“Je Suis Personne” – Potomac Review

“A Parable” – Burningwood Literary Journal

“Wintry Mix” and “Sponge Bath” –  The Carolina Quarterly

“What the Spruces Might Say,” “A Little History,” “Bora,” “Locked in the Marble” & “Moment of Silence” – Cutthroat 21 – www.cutthroatmag.com

“Trees Lie Broken Everywhere” Salamander #43

“Waking Alone” (translated into Slovenian by Ana Jelnikar & Meta Kusar) –  Poesis

“Carving the Silence,” “On the Day My Father Died,” “To a Speck” – The Lake Poetry

“Undertow,” “Open Season,” The Pear,” “Recordings,” “Through the Window,”  – Avatar Review

“There is No Word” and “Feeding my Father” – Prairie Schooner Spring 2015

“Phantom Questions” – Poetry Porch

“Encounter in Berlin” – Poetry Porch

“Trakl” –  Muddy River Poetry Review

“Beyond My Shoes” – Asheville Poetry Review

“Blue Stain” – The Ocean State Review

“Holy Things,” “Suburban Education” – AGNI

“Kafka,” “Morning Walk” – The Cafe Review

 “Self Love” – Mid-American Review

“Shadow Crossing” – New Ohio Review

“To the Blank Page” – Louisville Review

“Without Touching” – Carolina Quarterly

TRANSLATIONS

Four by Miriam Drev, translated from the Slovene
by the Author and Barbara Siegel Carlson in Poetry Porch 2025

        Fox
        Whistling
        Cradle
        Helix

“Stranger” by Miriam Drev, translated from the Slovene by the author and Barbara Siegel Carlson in Acumen January 2025

“Presence” by Miriam Drev, translated from the Slovene by the author and Barbara Siegel Carlson in Ballast January 2025 

Poems in Translation Poetry Porch Spring 2024

Two by Miriam Drev, translated from the Slovene
by the Author and Barbara Siegel Carlson:

       My Loved Ones
       Beauty

Alchemy 2023 – “The Double Ring” and “Black Stitches”

Poetry Miscellany 2022 – The Heron & Owlet

Poems by Miriam Drev  – Ezra 2021

Patti Smith reading Kosovel’s “A small coat” at her concert in Trieste Nov 28, 2019

Solstice – Tortoise

Solstice – Night Meeting by Srecko Kosovel

Soltice – Face in Solitude (translation)

Mid-American Review – Number 2 2016 -This Hollowed-Out Place That Barely Exists (translation chapbook) by Meta Kusar, translated by Ana Jelnikar, Barbara Siegel Carlson & Stephen Watts 

“Shotokan” – http://www.urbanbookcircle.com/shotokan-by-peter-semolic.html

Metamorphoses Fall 2015 – Four Poems by Srecko Kosovel 

Metamorphoses Spring 2009 – Eleven Poems by Srecko Kosovel 

Circumference – Five Poems in translation by Meta Kusar

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PRESS/REVIEWS:

Solstice Spring 2023: https://solsticelitmag.org/content/review-of-what-drifted-here-by-barbara-siegel-carlson/

March 17, 2023: Interview. The Flapper Poetry Press Cafe Welcomes the Poet of Inbetweenness, Barbara Carlson 

Summer 2022 – Between the Hours reviewed by Jennifer Martelli in Solstice: a magazine of diverse voices

11.30.15 –    Look Back, Look Ahead: The Selected Poems of Srecko Kosovel reviewed in Galatea Resurrects #25

4.25.15  —    Fire Road reviewed in Ragazine  

10.30.11 – Poems by Srecko Kosovel featured on Ezra

12.05.10 – Look Back, Look Ahead by Srecko Kosovel chosen as one of the year’s best poetry books

11.01.10 – Look Back, Look Ahead: The Selected Poems of Srecko Kosovel reviewed in Rain Taxi

09.20.10 – Look Back, Look Ahead: The Selected Poems of Srecko Kosovel reviewed in the Literary Review

07.27.10 – Look Back, Look Ahead by Srecko Kosovel featured on the Best American Poetry blog

07.25.10 – Two music pieces inspired by Srecko Kosovel, featured on the Best American Poetry blog

06.05.10 – Look Back, Look Ahead: The Selected Poems of Srecko Kosovel reviewed in the Quarterly Conversation

03.25.10 – A review of Look Back, Look Ahead by Srecko Kosovel on the BOMBLOG

INTERVIEWS:

Spring 2023 Solstice  The Mystical and the Bewildering: an Interview with Barbara Siegel Carlson and Ewa Chrusciel 

03.2023.  Flapper Press Poetry Welcomes Barbara Carlson https://www.flapperpress.com/post/the-flapper-press-poetry-caf%C3%A9-welcomes-the-poet-of-inbetweenness-barbara-carlson02.2108 . For the Love of Words

02.02.14 – Written In Small Spaces Interview (episode 18: On the non-liveable place of the road)

http://jp-dancingbear.squarespace.com/outofourminds/2014/3/27/out-of-our-minds-barbara-siegel-Carlson

ESSAYS/ARTICLES:

“How Five Slovenian Women Poets Tear Apart Frames to Find their Speech” 2021

“Invisible Strings: Exploring Connections Between the Poetries of Jean Valentine and Meta Kusar published in Primerjalna knjizevnost Ljubljana, 2019

“Resounding Notes: Words for Silence in the Slovene Language and its Poetry” published in Slovene Studies, Volume 40, numbers 1-2, 2018

“Poetry as Translation: Fusions of an Unfinishable Art ” published in New Perspectives on American Poetry, edited by Jiri Flajsar and Pauline Flajsarova. Olomouc, 2015.

“Creating a Golden Boat” Metamorphosis Spring 2008