Terri Kirby Erickson is the author of seven collections of poetry.
Her awards include the Joy Harjo Poetry Prize, Atlanta Review International Publication Award, Nazim Hikmet Poetry Award, Nautilus Silver Book Award, 2013 Leidig Keynote Poet at Emory & Henry College and many others.
In addition to the individual publications listed below, Terri’s poetry is also in a variety of anthologies including Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness & Connection and How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope (edited by James Crews), and others published by Old Mountain Press, Silver Boomer Books, the Hickory Women’s Resource Center, the Cape Fear River Foundation, Main Street Rag (Kakalak), and Texas Review Press (The Southern Poetry Anthology).
Her articles and essays have appeared in national and international publications, including Maria Shriver’s Architects for Change, O.Henry Magazine, PainPathways, Land Rover Monthly, BoomerCafe, Broad Street Review, Winston-Salem Journal, and more.
She has taught poetry workshops in libraries, high schools, universities, churches, medical centers, and other venues, and was an instructor in the continuing education program at Salem College.
Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous literary journals, anthologies and other publications, including:
PUBLICATIONS
| Ted Kooser’s “American Life in Poetry“ | Kakalak | San Pedro River Review |
| Annals of Internal Medicine | Latin American Literary Review | Scythe |
| A Prairie Journal | Literary Mama | Seeding the Snow |
| Artemis Journal | Long Story Short | Shot Glass Journal |
| Asheville Poetry Review | MockingHeart Review | Sleet Magazine |
| Atlanta Review | Muse India | Smoking Poet |
| Basilica Review | NASA News & Notes | Stone Gathering |
| Bay Leaves | Nibble | storySouth |
| Birmingham Arts Journal | North Carolina Literary Review | The Avalon Literary Review |
| Blue Fifth Review | Oak Bend Review | The Christian Century |
| Bop Dead City | The Ofi Press | The Gatherings Project |
| Boston Literary Magazine | O.Henry Magazine | The Mantle |
| Broad River Review | One Art | The New Verse News |
| Christian Science Monitor | PainPathways | The Rusty Nail |
| Connotation Press | Parent:Wise Austin | The Sixty-Four: Best Poets of 2019 |
| Cowboy Poetry | Paris Voice | The Sun |
| Cutthroat | Pinesong | The Sunlight Press |
| Dappled Things | Pirene’s Fountain | The Writer’s Almanac |
| Dead Mule | Pisgah Review | Thieves Jargon |
| Deep South Magazine | Plainsongs | 3rd Wednesday |
| Delta Poetry Review | Poetica Magazine | Time of Singing: A Magazine of Christian Poetry |
| Dime Show Review | Poet’s Market | Toasted Cheese |
| Eclectica | Poets Reading the News | To the Bone |
| Eunoia Review | Poetry Foundation | Train River Covid-19 Anthology |
| Flutter | Prairie Wolf Press | Tryst |
| Forsyth Woman | Prime Number Magazine | Turtle Island Quarterly |
| Foundling Review | Raptor Resource Project | 27 rue de fleures |
| Fourth & Sycamore | Red Eft Review | Valparaiso Poetry Review |
| Garo | Redheaded Stepchild | Verse Daily |
| Green Briar Review | Red River Review | Verse-Virtual |
| Hektoen International: A Journal of Medical Humanities | Relief: A Christian Literary Expression | Whole Terrain |
| Iodine | Salt | Wild Goose Poetry Review |
| Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) | Sandy River Review | Word Salad |
| Your Daily Poem | ||
| and others… |
Terri Kirby Erickson 