Tarik Dobbs

Tarik Dobbs
Dobbs at the 2025 AWP Conference
Born1997 (age 28–29)[1]
Dearborn, Michigan, U.S.[2]
OccupationPoet, editor
Alma materUniversity of Minnesota (MFA)[3]
Northwestern University (MFA)[1]
GenrePoetry
Notable worksNazar Boy (2024)
Notable awardsGLCA New Writers Award for Poetry (2026)[4]
Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship (2022)[5]

Tarik Dobbs (طارق دبس) is an Arab American poet and editor.[6][7] Dobbs is author of the poetry collection Nazar Boy (2024), which received the GLCA New Writers Award for Poetry in 2026.[4][8] In 2022, Dobbs was named a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow.[5]

Career

Born in Dearborn, Michigan, Dobbs studied art at the University of Michigan and later received MFAs from the University of Minnesota and Northwestern University.[2][1]

Dobbs's chapbook Dancing on the Tarmac was selected by Gabrielle Calvocoressi for Yemassee's 2020 Poetry Chapbook Prize and was published in 2021.[9][10][11] Their first full-length collection, Nazar Boy, was published by Haymarket Books in 2024.[8][1]

Dobbs is an assistant professor of English at Southwest Minnesota State University.[12] Dobbs has guest edited for Mizna and is CEO of Poetry Online.[13][14]

Disability and themes

Dobbs is gay and has Poland syndrome.[15] Disability is a recurring subject in Dobbs's work and editorial practice. In 2022, Dobbs curated Zoeglossia's Poem of the Week series "The Personal & Political Archive", on disability and archives.[16] Dobbs's poem "Poem Where Every Bird Is a Drone" appears in Poetry Foundation's Disability Poetics collection, and Faiza Mahfouf reads the poem as linking genocide and ecocide.[17][18] In 2026, Dobbs was included in the Palais de Tokyo exhibition Cheryl Marie Wade, the Queen-Mother of Gnarly.[19]

Bibliography

Books

Chapbooks

  • Dancing on the Tarmac (Yemassee, 2021), selected by Gabrielle Calvocoressi[9][10][11]

Selected poems

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Tarik Dobbs". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved March 19, 2026.
  2. ^ a b "MFA Student Spotlight Interview with Tarik Dobbs". College of Liberal Arts. University of Minnesota. April 26, 2022. Retrieved March 19, 2026.
  3. ^ "First Books Reading". English, College of Liberal Arts. University of Minnesota. Archived from the original on March 6, 2025. Retrieved March 19, 2026.
  4. ^ a b "GLCA Announces 2026 Winners of the New Writers Award". Great Lakes Colleges Association. Retrieved March 19, 2026.
  5. ^ a b "Poetry Foundation Announces the 2022 Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows". Poetry Foundation. September 22, 2022. Retrieved March 19, 2026.
  6. ^ a b "Tarik Dobbs". Academy of American Poets. Retrieved March 19, 2026.
  7. ^ "ZGP#47 Tarik Dobbs". Zoeglossia. Retrieved March 19, 2026.
  8. ^ a b c "Nazar Boy". Haymarket Books. Retrieved March 19, 2026.
  9. ^ a b "Tarik Dobbs". American Poetry Review. Retrieved March 19, 2026.
  10. ^ a b "2020 Contest Updates". Yemassee. Archived from the original on March 6, 2021. Retrieved March 19, 2026.
  11. ^ a b Lassell, Daniel. "Dancing on the Tarmac by Tarik Dobbs. Reviewed by Daniel Lassell". Diode Poetry Journal. Archived from the original on February 6, 2023. Retrieved March 19, 2026.
  12. ^ "Tarik Dobbs". Southwest Minnesota State University. Retrieved March 19, 2026.
  13. ^ "Mizna 22.2: The Experimental Issue". Mizna. Retrieved March 19, 2026.
  14. ^ "Poetry Online - Nonprofit Explorer". ProPublica. Retrieved March 19, 2026.
  15. ^ Mack, David (March 21, 2020). "A Guy Got Tested For The Coronavirus, Then A Stranger On Grindr Came To His Rescue". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved March 19, 2026.
  16. ^ "Curatorial Statement by Tarik Dobbs". Zoeglossia. Retrieved March 19, 2026.
  17. ^ "Disability Poetics". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved March 19, 2026.
  18. ^ a b Mahfouf, Faiza (May 24, 2024). "On Indigeneity and Sumud: "Permission to Narrate" Genocide and Ecocide in Tarik Dobbs's "Poem Where Every Bird Is a Drone" (2021)". Psychology and Education. 61 (5). Retrieved March 19, 2026.
  19. ^ "Cheryl Marie Wade, the Queen-Mother of Gnarly". Palais de Tokyo. Retrieved March 19, 2026.
  20. ^ "Techniques of Poetry: Prosody and Poetic Form (ENGL 216)". Wesleyan University Course Catalog. Retrieved March 19, 2026.
  21. ^ "Poem Where Every Bird Is a Drone". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved March 19, 2026.
  22. ^ "torrin a. greathouse reads "Poem Where Every Bird Is a Drone" by Tarik Dobbs". Poetry Foundation. May 17, 2022. Retrieved March 19, 2026.
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