Angela Ball across three issues
Angela Ball is an American poet, translator, essayist, and teacher whose books include Night Clerk at the Hotel of Both Worlds, Talking Pillow, and the 2026 collection Steeplechase. Her poems have appeared widely in American literary magazines, and she has taught for decades in the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi.
Three historical issues record Ball’s work. Issue 5 preserves the title “Our Convention,” Issue 7 records “Give Everyone in Prague My Regards,” and Issue 20 records “Grottoes and Their Uses.” The surviving pages retain the titles and authorship while the poem texts themselves are absent.
Our Convention
The Issue 5 record preserves the title and author. The poem text is no longer present on the surviving page.
Give Everyone in Prague My Regards
Issue 7 preserves the title and authorship while the poem text itself is absent.
Grottoes and Their Uses
Issue 20 preserves the title and author while the poem text is no longer present.
Books, awards, and later work
University of Pittsburgh Press documents Ball’s books, publications, teaching, and National Endowment for the Arts support. Her collection Night Clerk at the Hotel of Both Worlds won the Donald Hall Prize in Poetry and a Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Poetry Award. Steeplechase, published in February 2026, moves through Mississippi, cities, travel, love, illness, loss, and the landscapes of a final shared season.