About Alice Friman and The Southern Review

Today's poem is "Weighing In"

from The Southern Review

Alice Friman's seventh collection is Blood Weather, LSU Press, 2019. Her last two are The View from Saturn and Vinculum also from LSU which won the Georgia author of the year in poetry. A recipient of two Pushcart Prizes and included in Best American Poetry, she's won many prizes and has been been published in Poetry, Ploughshares, Plume, Georgia Review, Gettysburg Review, Crazyhorse, Poetry East, Massachusetts Review, and many others.
Other poems by Alice Friman in Verse Daily:
July 5, 2019: "Refraction at Twilight" "What did we see..."
April 19, 2011: "Getting Serious" "Today I started looking for my soul...."
August 28, 2008: "Siren Song for Late September" "A woman walks the trails at night..."
November 24, 2007: "Watermelon" "Small as a bocce ball, dark..."
December 17, 2006: "The Fireman and His Wife" " Sensing the exact amount..."
April 13, 2006: "Dust" " The lawn rolled back like a rug..."
August 22, 2002: "The Exile" "A woman takes the same walk / each afternoon...."
Books by Alice Friman:

Other poems on the web by Alice Friman:
Nine poems
"The Peach"
"The Pipefish"
"True Stories"
Alice Friman's Website.
About The Southern Review:

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