Poetry
“That Next Morning” Panorama
“Absolution Song” Solstice
Reconstruction (poetry collection, winner of the 2024 Lefty Blondie Press First Chapbook Award judged by Lee Ann Roripaugh)
“26 Doors in Racine, Wisconsin” Poets Reading the News
“Twoness” Rogue Agent
“City Living” Five Minutes
“Boy under glass” Wild Greens
“Victory Garden” Odes to Our Undoing: Writers Reflecting on Crisis (Anthology, Risk Press)
“Dysphonia” NiftyLit Magazine
“Sea Mother” NiftyLit Magazine
“Genetic Testing” Myra Paci’s Adventures in Peterland film site
“Keep the baby?” SWAMP
“Thinking of Being a Bird” Ekphrastic Review
“Sound the Trumpet” Zingara Poetry Review
“Thunderbolt” Aôthen; Sisyphus Literary Magazine
Prose
What Can Poetry Do? Lefty Blondie Press Blog
Interview Berkeley Extension Voices
Choosing by the book: reading Audre Lorde on the way to the operating room Sugar Sugar Salt Magazine
Absolution Song
Some of us are born blacklisted—don’t want work
in the womanly arts. Others choose
to wait and see. Here’s a gender song, gentle.
A two song, a chain? O my small starlet sunk
I apologize to your past future self, hosed
down the drain of my most need, gurgling. I apologize
to no-one else. The practice was on a back street in Brookline
leafy, and devoid of protesters. They sent away my boyfriend
two hours before my name was called, two hours
to practice being alone with my decision. In the middle
of the night I woke bleeding. The would-be child was fiction now
yet part of my geology. Hello, notables who rule choice
chisel our numbers, bait your traps—this song
won’t teach you something new. It’s not for you.
Edith Friedman 