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, a Poetry Foundation fellowship, and other honors. Her newest book The Animal Is Chemical (Four Way Books, 2024), was awarded the Levis Prize in Poetry, selected by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jericho Brown. Her other books include The New Nudity; Lullaby (with Exit Sign), awarded the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize and a finalist for the Rilke Prize; The Frame Called Ruin, Editor’s Selection for the Green Rose Prize; and A Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight, awarded the Margie Book Prize. She is also the author of two chapbooks, Fountain and Furnace, awarded the Sunken Garden Prize, and Show Me Yours, awarded the Midwest Poets Series Prize. In addition, she is co-author with Michelle Boisseau of the best-selling textbook Writing Poems, 8th ed. Individual poems appear in the American Poetry Review, The Believer, Kenyon Review, The New Republic, Ploughshares, Poetry, and elsewhere. Hadara is currently Professor of English and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Poems in this episode:
Poem 1: “What do you do for a living?” by Hadara Bar-Nadav
https://www.versedaily.org/2023/whatdoyoudoforaliving.shtml
This poem was first published in Bennington Review.
Poem 2: “Ventriloquist” by Hadara Bar-Nadav
https://www.versedaily.org/2019/ventriloquist.shtml
This poem was first published in Colorado Review and appears in my new book The Animal Is Chemical (Four Way Books, 2024)
Poem 3: “I Am Neither Surgical” by Hadara Bar-Nadav
https://www.versedaily.org/2023/iamneithersurgical.shtml
This poem was first published in 32 Poems.
Poem 4: “Walk on a Cliff at Pourville” by Allison Benis White
This won the Lucille Medwick Award and appears on the Poetry Society of America’s website:
https://poetrysociety.org/award-winners/poetry-society-of-america-awards-2022/lucille-medwick-memorial-award
Poem 5: “The Singing Pills” by Hadara Bar-Nadav
This poem first appeared in Poetry, then republished in my book The Animal Is Chemical (Four Way Books, 2024).
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/155665/the-singing-pills
Hadara Bar-Nadav’s website:
http://hadarabar.com/
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