Ask Alice #3: "On Revision"

Alice Friman answers the questions: Have you ever felt that revising old poems got in the way of producing new ones? How do you achieve the balance of working with older and newer poems? She also reads "A Poem of Attrition" by Etheridge Knight.

Previous Episodes:

Ask Alice #1: Alice Talks About Poetry, "My Sweet Hell" Alice Friman discusses what poetry means to her and answers the question: Who is Alice Friman the poet? Alice also reads Rilke and talks about Rilke's work with Rodin. This video features a photograph of Rilke, Rodin, and Rodin's wife Rose Beuret.

Ask Alice #2: Alice Talks About Poetry, "Poetry Has Given Me More Than I've Ever Given It" Alice Friman tackles the questions: How have you changed as a poet over your life? Do you think it's necessary to sometimes let those moments when you feel immobilized by the despair of it take over? She also reads "Carrion Comfort" by Gerard Manley Hopkins.

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Alice Friman is the Poet-in-Residence at Georgia College & State University and professor emerita of English and Creative Writing at the University of Indianapolis. She is the author of five books of poetry, including most recently Vinculum, which was released by LSU press in spring of 2011. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Gettysburg Review, Prairie Schooner, Five Points, and many other national magazines.

Ask Alice is a periodical web show in which Alice Friman will discuss and answer questions about poetry, creative writing, and the writing life in general.

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