As a child, we dream of worlds not yet imagined, of heroines and heroes, of monsters and fantastical feats of power and agility. Then we grow up.     And we continue to still dream of things that “go bump in the night,” of fantasies and frightening episodes that are replayed in our dream sleep, of accomplishments and achievements, of new worlds waiting for us to explore, of experiences anticipated or already realized, of sheroes and other characters cloaked in real-life or conjecture.   Tamara J. Madison’s recent work, “Threed, This Road Not Damascus” conjures worlds and experiences that are routinely landscaped in dreams and moments of free association. Her powerful use of words, phrases and themes take us to places that we have yet to imagine. To places that prompts us to ponder, reflect and embrace. Her poetic compilation enables the readers to travel back in time and re-imagine a world that was never experienced but after reading her work, fully understo...

Tamara J. Madison, Literary Workshop, NYS Equal Rights Heritage Center, Auburn, NY    November 1, 2019 [photo credit:  Karen Faris] Professor Madison was an inaugural contributor and her words graced the premier issue of aaduna back in 2011. She was one of the initial contributors who read their work at aaduna's first public reading convened at the Seward House Museum in Auburn, NY. And since those "back in the day" years, she has become a contributing editor for our online literary and visual arts journal; continued to progress her literary influences through a recent book publication ( Threed, This Road Not Damascus , Trio House Press, Inc., 2019;) as a participant in a juried writing retreat in France, and professor at Valencia College in Orlando, Florida.   Tamara was a featured reader at aaduna's 2019 Halloween Gala Fundraiser (an annual event usually on the Thursday before the Memorial Day weekend) and then the next day at the City of Aubur...