About Hedy Habra and The Bitter Oleander

Today's poem is "Or How With Each Dream She'd Feel Closer to the Receding Shoreline"

from The Bitter Oleander

Hedy Habra is a poet, artist and essayist. She has authored three poetry collections, most recently, The Taste of the Earth (Press 53 2019), Winner of the Silver Nautilus Book Award and Honorable Mention for the Eric Hoffer Book Award. Tea in Heliopolis won the Best Book Award and Under Brushstrokes was finalist for the International Book Award. Her story collection, Flying Carpets, won the Arab American Book Award's Honorable Mention and was finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award. A sixteen-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the net, and recipient of the Nazim Hikmet Award, her multilingual work appears in numerous journals and anthologies.
Other poems by Hedy Habra in Verse Daily:
September 4, 2019: "Or How Can We Ever Cut Down to the Bare Essentials?" "He kept retreating from room to room..."
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
Six poems
"A Triptych"
"Hokusai's The Great Wave"
Three poems
Three poems
Two poems
Three poems
"Europa's Song"
"Obsessive Compulsion"
"The Keyhole"
Hedy Habra's Website.
Hedy Habra on Twitter.
About The Bitter Oleander:

The Bitter Oleander * The Bitter Oleander Press * 4983 Tall Oaks Drive * Fayetteville, New York 13066-9776
Editor: Hedy Habra
Other poems by The Bitter Oleander in Verse Daily:
August 22, 2021: "Left Out" by Paul B. Roth
August 21, 2021: "Echo" by Patty Dickson Pieczka
August 20, 2021: "Astronomy" by David Keplinger
August 19, 2021: "The Worry in My Voice" by Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto
June 23, 2021: "Orange Blossom" by Ivy Marie
June 21, 2021: "Corona" by Patty Dickson Pieczka
June 18, 2021: "Dreams of Sand and Bears" by Madronna Holden
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 Lara Gularte
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 Ray Gonzalez
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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