Today's poem is
"Why Barbara Isn't Here"
from Hubbub
Andrea Hollander
moved to Portland, Oregon, in 2011, after many years in
the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas, where she ran a bed and breakfast inn
for fifteen years and served as the writer-in-residence at Lyon College for
twenty-two. Hollander is the author of four full-length poetry collections,
including Landscape with Female Figure, a finalist for the 2014 Oregon Book
Award. Other honors include two fellowships from the National Endowment
for the Arts, the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, the D. H . Lawrence
Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize for memoir, and fellowships from the arts
councils of Arkansas and Oregon. She teaches writing workshops at both
the Attic Instirute and Mountain Writers Series.
Other poems by Andrea Hollander in Verse Daily:
February 9, 2016: "Funeral in Vermont" "So much hurling snow and the only colors..."
July 3, 2013: "Natural Causes" "The track was hidden by a line..."
May 13, 2009: "Thanksgiving" "Her voice has too much jewelry in it...."
July 12, 2003: "Snow White" "It was actually one of the dwarfs..."
Books by Andrea Hollander:
Other poems on the web by Andrea Hollander:
Eight poems
Two poems
"Gretel"
"Delta Flight 1152"
"Betrayal"
Three poems
"Why I Married Him"
Andrea Hollander's Website.
Andrea Hollander According to Wikipedia.
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