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		Alice Friman, “poet-in-residence” at GCSU, teaches graduate and undergraduate poetry workshops. She is Associate Editor for Arts & Letters.
	Read three recent poems published in Field, Gettysburg Review, and Poetry	Alice taught English at the University of Indianapolis from 1971 to 1993 and in 1993 was named the university’s Teacher of the Year.  In 1987, she received a teaching award from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education in Washington, DC. She has published seven collections of poetry, most recently Inverted Fire, from BkMk Press, University of Missouri-Kansas City, and Zoo, from the University of Arkansas Press, which won both Truman State University’s Ezra Pound Poetry Award and the New England Poetry Club’s Sheila Margaret Motton Prize.
	Order on-line at Arkansas	Comments on Zoo: Friman dissects flora and fauna: the tropic landscape of Hawai’i and the savannas of Tanzania and Kenya, all roiling with lava, lions, vultures, the picked-over skeletons of zebras, as well as the familial skyline of working-class uncles… Aunt Sadie, and Daddy in his Depends. Beauty resides here not in prettiness but in a scalpel precision that breaks the heart. Vince Gotera Here’s a poet with lively eyes, ear, and imagination. Her poems engrave themselves in memory by their accurate metaphors and sharp details. She can be wild without losing control, tender without ever waxing sentimental…. [H]her collection is strong and engaging and full of surprises all the way through. It’s a Zoo worth returning to for a month of Sundays. X. J. Kennedy The book is about the harnessing of wildness—especially in humans…. Friman’s deft use of metaphor and her ability to choose relevatory detail are equally compelling…. A meditation on the frailty of permanence and the permanence of frailty, Friman’s passionate and passionately honest collection demonstrates the tremendous power of this seasoned poet. Andrea Hollander Budy
	Alice Friman and Bruce Gentry at a student reading on campus. Visit Alice Friman’s website	Alice’s newest book is The Book of the Rotten Daughter, released from BkMk Press in 2006. Individual poems appear in such prestigious American literary magazines as Poetry, Georgia Review, Boulevard, Prairie Schooner, Southern Review, and Gettysburg Review, as well as the British magazines Poetry Review and London Review of Books. Her poems appear in anthologies from St. Martin’s, Prentice-Hall, Longman, Beacon Press, the University of Minnesota Press, and the University of Iowa Press. She has received fellowships from Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest, the Indiana Arts Council, and the Arts Council of Indianapolis; has been invited to teach at Curtin University in Australia; and has had residencies at such artist colonies as Yaddo, MacDowell, and the Millay Colony. Among her numerous awards are three prizes from the Poetry Society of America and the 2001 James Boatwright III Prize for Poetry from Shenandoah. On April 12, 2007, Alice visited Cornell University as part of the Writers At Cornell reading series. To learn more about her visit and listen to an interview with Alice click here.
	Read Recent poems on-line	“The Mythological Cod” from Southern Review “The Iron Cross” from Gettysburg Review “Permanent Press” and “Seeing It Through” from Poetry

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