What are the stories we tell our bodies about our bodies? What are the myths we tell ourselves about ourselves?
My work is invested in exploring the intricate relationships between the body, the natural world, and human experience.
I employ texture—through the power of polyvocality and different material applications—to capture the multiplicity of roles and frameworks women exist in every day and to render those multiplicities tangible through a richer, more complex dialogue between subject, text, and reader.
Explore Abi’s writing.
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The Pinch • these our tenuous intentions: • Forthcoming Spring 2025
Western Humanities Review • this our listless passive drift: • Forthcoming Spring 2025
Crab Creek Review • what is it you taste when you die in the night • Forthcoming Fall 2024
antiphony • to heather is to stake a claim • Issue 3 • September 2024
TriQuarterly • this our impossible savorings: • these our sacred storms: • this our muscled temperatures: • Issue 164 • Summer/Fall 2023
Radar Poetry • these our vicious altars: • this our speculative reflex: • this our hideous intuitions: • this our sublime hauntings: • these our holy anticipations: • Issue 34 • October 15, 2022
Janus Head • billow & pulse (meadow) • July 7, 2022
Cream City Review • to forest is to hide a woman • Issue 46.1 • Spring/Summer 2022
KALEIDOSCOPED • these our silent silky pretenses: • March 12, 2022
Palette Poetry • this our reckless exhibition: • January 17, 2022
EX/POST • standard practice • Issue IV • January 2022
EcoTheo • aubade • Autumn 2021
The Seventh Wave • here’s the space i carry. here’s the space that’s empty. • this our sunken sweet parade: • Issue 14: The Economies of Harm • November 2021
The Shore • billow & pulse (tide) • & today a hull to hold on to • & tonight this is what it’s like • Issue 11 • September 2021
Jack Straw Writers Anthology • body mythlets • Volume 25 • May 2021
Denver Quarterly • a walk in the woods • Issue 55.1 • 2020
Foundry • lilies & these eroded • Issue 13 • October 2019
CutBank • From Granite Illusion, So the Conjoined World Follows • March 2019
Poetry Northwest • 7:28PM: above the river the bridge the bridge • February 2019
The Seattle Review of Books • if the mirror • Urban planning when prayers for the body aren’t enough • The Sea Thinks Beyond Itself • To live in ignorance is exactly what • February 2019
The Spectacle • The Auction • stains of an enemy’s century • Reckoning • Issue 6 • December 2018
Black Warrior Review • Shadow Season • Issue 45.1 • October 2018
Horsethief • Sister Shapes • Forthcoming
Transom • in the after [sister idioms] • you had a baby & then • Issue 11 • September 2017
Yes, Poetry • Sister, n., [Found] • Mar. 10, 2017
The Birds We Piled Loosely • amnesty • democracy of swollen things • Issue 10 • December 2016
CALAMITY • And Now, How All [our speech deteriorates] • December 2016
Inch • Out of Pebbles • Issue 31 • October 2016
Broadsided Press • island sided • June 2016
LEVELER • liminal spaces • April 2016
inter|rupture • to move forward • October 2015
Guernica • preservation tactics • Issue: The Boundaries of Nature • September 2015
H_NGM_N • a lesson in decomposing • Homegrowths • I Sever, I Ought to Nudge the Obscene Fickleness • Wildflower Mythology • Issue 17 • May 2015
Bayou Magazine • The hearth no longer a hallowed frame—I found • Issue 62 • 2014
14 Hills • afternoon in the rain • Issue 19.1 • 2013
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& when we unmake the making • Holding / Movement: cello/poetry collaboration with Gretchen Yanover • March 2024
Out of Pebbles • Summit Sound Audio Installation • Seattle Convention Center in collaboration with Jack Straw Cultural Center • September 2023
Abi Pollokoff x Julia Massey • Jack Straw 2021 x Bushwick Book Club • September 2021
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Semifinalist • 2024 Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize • Crab Creek Review
Nomination • 2025 Pushcart Prize • TriQuarterly
Mentee • 2024 AWP Writer to Writer Program
Resident • 2023 Bloedel Residency • The Seventh Wave
Finalist • 2022 Coniston Prize • Radar Poetry
Finalist • 2022 Gatewood Prize • Switchback Books
Fellow • 2021 Writers Program • Jack Straw Cultural Center • Seattle, WA
Fellow • 2019–2020 Program • Hugo House • Seattle, WA
Poet in Residence • February 2019 • The Seattle Review of Books
Finalist • 2019 Broadside Contest • Omnidawn Books
Writer in Residence • October–November 2017 • The Alice Gallery • Writer in Residence • Seattle, WA
Finalist • 2013 Writing Fellowship • Writing by Writers Workshop
Winner • 2012 Anselle M. Larson/Academy of American Poets Prize, judged by Caryl Pagel • Tulane University • New Orleans, LA