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Read three recent
poems published in Field, Gettysburg Review, and
Poetry
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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.
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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
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Alice Friman and Bruce
Gentry at a student reading on campus.
Visit Alice Friman’s website
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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.
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