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Today's poem is "Or How Can We Ever Cut Down to the Bare Essentials?"

from The Bitter Oleander

Hedy Habra has authored two poetry collections, Under Brushstrokes, finalist for the USA Best Book Award and the International Poetry Book Award, and Tea in Heliopolis, winner of the USA Best Book Award and finalist for the International Poetry Book Award. Her story collection, Flying Carpets, won the Arab American National Book Award's Honorable Mention and was finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award. A twelve-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, her work appears in Cimarron Review, 7he Bitter Oleander, Blue Fifth Review, Cider Press Review, Drunken Boat, Gargoyle, Nimrod, Poet Lore, World Literature Today and Verse Daily.

Other poems by Hedy Habra in Verse Daily:
May 6, 2019:   "To Amal (Because Your Name Means Hope)" "How can one think of better..."
March 16, 2013:   "Bricolage" "Go every day a little deeper..."

Books by Hedy Habra:

Other poems on the web by Hedy Habra:
Three poems
Two poems
Three poems
"Europa's Song"
"Obsessive Compulsion"
"The Keyhole"

Hedy Habra's Website.

Hedy Habra according to Wikipedia.

Hedy Habra on Twitter.

About 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:
January 7, 2010:   "Paul Celan's Ashes" by Ray Gonzalez
January 6, 2010:   "Paul Celan's Ashes" 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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