About Madronna Holden and The Bitter Oleander

Today's poem is "Dreams of Sand and Bears"

from The Bitter Oleander

Madronna Holden is using her recent retirement from teaching to concentrate on her award-winning poetry, which has appeared in some two dozen literary journals, including The Christian Science Monitor, American Writing, and Equinox Poetry and Prose, in addition to The Bitter Oleander. Her poems written as "duets" in conjunction with the work of painter David Wolfersberger have also appeared in the Cold Mountain Review, Puerto del Sol, The Slippery Elm Literary Journal, the Chestnut Review, and elsewhere. Her poetry drama, The Descent of Inanna, was the subject of a documentary aired on Oregon Public Television. Her chapbook, Goddess of Glass Mountains, is due out from Finishing Line Press later this year.
Other poems on the web by Madronna Holden:
Three poems
"The Rattle on the Tail of Things"
Three poems
Two poems
Two poems
"Heresies"
Three poems
"Astronaut of Another Earth"
Madronna Holden's Website.
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 10, 2020: "White Noise" by Alice Pettway
August 9, 2020: "After The End Times" 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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