Madeline Tiger’s most recently published collections are The Earth Which Is All (2008) and Birds of Sorrow and Joy: New and Selected Poems, 1970-2000 (2003). Her work appears regularly in journals and anthologies. She has been teaching in state programs and private workshops since 1973 and has been a “Dodge Poet” since 1986. She has five children and seven grandchildren and lives in Bloomfield, NJ under a weeping cherry tree.

Books by Madeline Tiger:

Other poems on the web by Madeline Tiger:
"Cresecent"
Two poems

About The Atheist’s Prayer:

"In The Atheist’s Prayer Madeline Tiger never forgets, even in the most intimate moments, that “truth is …like the old inveterate river that holds clouds.” Tiger encompasses, with a tender embrace, a life made whole; her ministrations do not deny its sorrows, and she is glad to celebrate its hard-won triumphs. I don’t know when I have ever been allowed to contemplate the intricacies of the personal so unflinchingly and to understand that, beyond the window, there is a vast untempered world, a glorious one. It is the caring in these quietly intelligent poems which makes living in this world possible."
—Burt Kimmelman