Barry Ballard has published his sonnets in several magazines, including Smartish Pace, Rosebud, Hollins Critic, and National Forum. He lives in Burleson, TX and has received the Explorations Award for Literature from the University of Alaska and the Boswell Poetry Prize from Texas Christian University. Ballard has also published two prize-winning collections: Green Tombs to Jupiter (Snails Pace Press Poetry Prize), and A Time to Reinvent (Creative Ash Press Poetry Prize).
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