Hadara Bar-Nadav is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, the Lucille Medwick Award from the Poetry Society of America, and other honors. Her award-winning books include The New Nudity (Saturnalia Books, 2017); Lullaby (with Exit Sign) (Saturnalia Books, 2013), awarded the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize; The Frame Called Ruin (New Issues, 2012), Editor's Selection/Runner-Up for the Green Rose Prize; and A Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight (Margie/Intuit House, 2007), awarded the Margie Book Prize. She is also the author of two chapbooks, Fountain and Furnace (Tupelo Press, 2015), awarded the Sunken Garden Poetry Prize, and Show Me Yours (Laurel Review/Green Tower Press, 2010), awarded the Midwest Poets Series Prize. In addition, she is co-author with Michelle Boisseau of the best-selling textbook Writing Poems, 8th ed. (Pearson, 2011). Her poetry has appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Believer, The Kenyon Review, The New Republic, Ploughshares, Poetry, Tin House, and elsewhere. She is a Professor of English and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Other poems by Hadara Bar-Nadav in Verse Daily:
May 19, 2023:   "Thumb" "Who means what it is to be human..."
March 24, 2023:   "What Do You Do for a Living?" "Full-time mother full-time smother..."
March 15, 2023:   "I Am Neither Surgical" by Hadara Bar-Nadav
May 26, 2020:   "The Blind" "I was the deep reader of dirt...."
December 17, 2019:   "Ventriloquist" "The old wound is speaking..."
November 13, 2017:   "Heart" "A bad word..."
December 9, 2015:   "Sugar" "Secret boxes..."
November 13, 2012:   "My Wife in All Things" "My wife the sun. A chiffon dress lit with poppies and devilish hearts. Buttershine on..."

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Other poems on the web by Hadara Bar-Nadav:
"The Singing Pills"
Two poems
Four poems
"What Do You Do For a Living?"
"Touchless Entry"
Six poems
"Blur"
"Dress (Aurora Borealis)"
Two poems
Four poems
"Latch"
Two poems
Three poems
Three poems
Three poems
Two poems
Four poems
"Family of Strangers"
Two poems
"The Last Gesture"
"Organizing Principle"
"Cafe with Faceless Man"

Hadara Bar-Nadav's Website.

About The Animal Is Chemical:

"The Animal Is Chemical is a book about the body and the mind—their response to illness and their rejection of, or dependence on, all we do to medicate what we cannot bear to feel. But it also seems to me an extended ars poetica that questions—and prays for!—poetry's ability to heal: 'The old wound is speaking / again through my back, / carving its blood alphabet.' Hadara Bar-Nadav organizes terror through a language so precise that every line proves how beauty can be wrought from pain."
—Jericho Brown