Published Poems

Mark Scarborough, host of the lyric poetry podcast Lyric Life, reads and analyzes Tamara Madison’s poem What Now Is Like

Click the links below to read each poem … 

8th Grade Field Trip

After a Grown Child’s Visit

August Evening

Banko

Behaving

Cells Divide and Are Forever Separate

Child Writer

Dancing a Fantasy

Fire Sky

Fuck

Fugue

Her Name Was Becky

Hubris

Impasse

In San Francisco

Lay

Lefty

Making Way

Mothers

Orchid Cactus

Prelude

Quarantine Spring

Russian Scrabble

Saudade

Squirrel World

Tailless

The Labor it Takes

The New Room

The Salton Sea

The Wood Duck’s Home

To a Hornworm, I

To a Hornworm, II

Voyager

Waiting for the Scythe

What Now is Like

Who Are We to Think?