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Alice Friman

Alice Friman’s eighth collection of poems is On the Overnight Train, a New & Selected from LSU Press, which won the Midland Authors Poetry Award, 2025. Her last books, also from LSU, are Blood Weather, The View from Saturn, and Vinculum, which won the Georgia author of the year in poetry. She’s a recipient of  two Pushcart Prizes as well as being included in Best American Poetry. She’s been published in Poetry, Ploughshares, Plume, The Southern Review and many others. Her website is alicefrimanpoet.com.

  • Two Poems

    Black, faux-leather cover with gold trim—

  • Tom’s Sublet and Without Longing, What?

    Once, a long time ago in Rome, I was bathed

  • A Brief Portfolio

    As if overnight, the flowering pear tree

  • The Dog Days of August and Elaine’s Story

    What huge effort to move through

  • The Encounter

    Drizzle and formless

  • Dealing with the Forbidden & How It Begins

    I've a talent for throwing things away.

  • Swan Song

    I admit. In the beginning

  • Clytemnestra, Unleashed

    Lovingly, she poured the scented water into his bath

  • In Praise of Wandering

    You ask how we do it. Simple.