Sally Ball Explained

Sally Ball
Nationality:	American
Alma Mater:	Williams College, Warren Wilson College
Genre:	Poetry
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Awards:	Margaret Bridgman Fellow

Sara Louise "Sally" Ball is an American poet, editor, and professor. She is the author of Annus Mirabilis (Barrow Street Press, 2005). Her poems and essays have appeared in literary journals and magazines including American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, Pleiades, Ploughshares, Rivendell, Slate, Threepenny Review, Salmagundi, The Southwest Review, The Threepenny Review, Yale Review, and the Review of Contemporary Fiction.

Life

She earned her B.A. from Williams College, and her M.F.A. from Warren Wilson College. She taught at Beloit College, and worked at the Washington University in St. Louis International Writers Center.^{[1] [2]} She is associate director of Four Way Books.^{[3] [4]} She teaches at Arizona State University.^[5]

Honors and awards

• 2011 Arizona Commission on the Arts Fellowship
• 2007 Margaret Bridgman Fellow at Bread Loaf Writers' Conference

Published works

Full-Length Poetry Collections

• Hold Sway, Barrow Street Press. Forthcoming April 2019.^[6]
• Book: Annus mirabilis. Barrow Street Press. 2005. 978-0-9728302-4-9. registration.
• Wreck Me, Barrow Street Press, 2013.

Anthology Publications

• Book: The Best American Poetry 1995. https://books.google.com/books?id=MY3IC7Z4HgUC&q=sally+ball+Best+American+Poetry+1995.&pg=PA23. Nocturnal. Richard Howard . David Lehman. Simon and Schuster. 1995. 978-0-684-80151-3 .

External links

• Author Website
• Poems: "Dear Matthew" and others, Narrative, Spring 2011
• Poem: "One Story of Conversion", Poetry Daily
• Poems: "In Hannover: Clairvoyance", Drunken Boat, Spring 2005
• Poems: "Gymnasium", Ploughshares, Winter 1996–97
• Poems: "Questiones, Ploughshares, Spring 2004
• Poem: "Visiting the Real Ranch", slate, July 15, 2008
• Poems: "Sound Bow, Lip, Mouth"; "Phobic Darling"; "After Valentine's Day", Locus Point, 31 August 2008

Notes and References

1. Web site: Issues | Ploughshares.
2. Web site: The Record - the Source - Washington University in St. Louis. 15 June 2023 .
3. Web site: Poetry Daily Feature: Sally Ball - Annus Mirabilis . 2009-11-05 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100116234827/http://www.cstone.net/~poems/annusbal.htm . 2010-01-16 .
4. Web site: Home . fourwaybooks.com.
5. Web site: Sally Ball | iSearch.
6. Web site: ASU author's new poetry book wrestles with hope, lament in climate change. The Arizona State Press. 2019-03-27.