About Alice Pettway and The Bitter Oleander

Today's poem is "White Noise"

from The Bitter Oleander

Alice Pettway is the author of three books of poetry: The Time of Hunger (2017), Moth (2019) and Station Lights (forthcoming from Salmon Poetry in 2021). Her work has appeared in AGNI, The Colorado Review, Poet Lore, The Southern Review, The Threepenny Review, and many others. Pettway is a former Chulitna and Lily Peter fellow. She's called five continents home but is taking a momentary pause from her nomadic lifestyle near Seattle, Washington.
Other poems by Alice Pettway in Verse Daily:
February 22, 2020: "Sea Lion" "I saw me dying...."
November 5, 2019: "Death Custom" "There's too much land here, enough to store..."
May 27, 2017: "Barbed Wire and Bedclothes" "I will rip these sheets off you like a bandage..."
October 25, 2009: "Confession of the Oak Tree" "I would shed my leaves in an instant..."
Books by Alice Pettway:

Other poems on the web by Alice Pettway:
"The Anatomy of Endings"
Three poems
Three poems
Three poems
Alice Pettway's Website.
Alice Pettway on Twitter.
About The Bitter Oleander:

The Bitter Oleander * The Bitter Oleander Press * 4983 Tall Oaks Drive * Fayetteville, New York 13066-9776
Editor: Paul B. Roth
Other poems by The Bitter Oleander in Verse Daily:
August 9, 2020: "White Noise" by Lara Gularte
August 6, 2020: "Suburban Cemetery" by Ramón García
August 5, 2020: "After Lorca" by Patty Dickson Pieczka
December 22, 2019: "Holy Water" by Alan Britt
December 21, 2019: "Ears Full of Thorns" by Ray Gonzalez
December 20, 2019: "Curved Mirror" by Franca Mancinelli (translated by John Taylor)
September 5, 2019: "Another Idea" by George Kalamaras
September 4, 2019: "Or How Can We Ever Cut Down to the Bare Essentials?" by Hedy Habra
January 7, 2010: "Paul Celan's Ashes" by Alan Britt
January 6, 2010: "Kissing the Throat of True Love" by Alan Britt
January 4, 2010: "Love Poem with Exiles" by Octavio Quintanilla
November 16, 2008: "What Kind of an Animal Would Do That" by Laurie Blauner
November 15, 2008: "The Voice of The Insomniac " by Blanca Castellón, translated by J. P. Dancing Bear
April 20, 2008: "Coal Seam Fire" by Steven D. Schroeder
April 19, 2008: "From a Dead Fox In a Suburban Backyard" by Robert Pesich
December 22, 2007: "Tissue Culture" by Robert Pesich

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