Ask Alice #2: “Poetry Has Given Me More Than I’ve Ever Given It”
Alice Friman is the author of nine books. But more importantly, she’s an accessible poet, a woman willing to read her favorite poems on camera (e.g. Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “Carrion Comfort”) in her strong New York accent and answer reader-submitted questions. Here, she talks about how she’s changed as a poet over the course of her life and “the despair of it.”
Keep watching the periodical web show for more installments of Ask Alice, and be sure to see episode #1. To submit your own question about poetry, email Arts & Letters.*
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*Full disclosure: Alice Friman is poet-in-residence at the school where I am a graduate student. She’s pretty fabulous in person, too.
