Leora Fridman

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Book Interview: Leora Fridman & Brandon North

"A moment of crisis for many of us, and so we turn to broken language--"

thank you Brandon North for your sweet questions! to Cleveland I go --

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Thanks to Laura Straub for this sweetie! 

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Fridman's debut collection, winner of the 2015 CSU Poetry Center First Book Competition, belies its small size in the multilayered complexity of its deeply evocative poems. These exacting, associative

tfw everything about you always "belies its small size"

but "wildly caring" / I'll take it / may Publishers Weekly promote always the wildly caring

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I’m excited to be teaching Homestead Apothecary’s first creative writing class this fall in their new shop in the Laurel. Bay Area, come! I’ll be co-teaching with Tessa Micaela, we’ll be erasing from ourselves and from herbs, and building up what we want to carry into winter from fall. More info here.

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It’s true I have an essay on the cover of Tricycle this month. About managing management. And you can read it online here, too.

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Excited to be real and live this fall!

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An interview with Leora Fridman, from The Write Stuff series: Leora Fridman is an interdisciplinary artist, organizer and educator based in the Bay Area. Leora is the author of My Fault, selected b…

It's not every day you get to have your face be huge // your fantasies writ larger / thanks to Evan Karp + Litseen for asking me about both + this video of both poured in sunshine on my porch ! ! 

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Thanks for putting me on this sweet SPD bestseller list for June, friends! It’s been a beautiful month of traveling to see and read to so many of you. 

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Excited to have a piece in this great show, open through June 25!

Inspired by the affecting "Letters to a Young Poet" by eminent writer Rainer Maria Rilke, "Correspondencia (Correspondence)" is an exhibition project by artist Marcela Pardo Ariza, writer Nick Johnson, and curator Ángel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción based in the Bay Area in California. The show will be held at the CTRL + SHFT space in Oakland from June 8 — June 25, 2016.

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Leora Fridman is the author of My Fault (Cleveland State University Press). In this interview, we talk about Alice Notley, Leora’s influences, and her writing process.

Thanks to Kallie Falandays for interviewing me for Tell Tell Poetry! In which I try to talk about receptive boundaries, Caryl Pagel's revelation of obvious mysteries, and my unfortunate compassionate impulse.

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by Liat Berdugo Even as metadata I want to feel your body beside me congregate with other metadata know what it is to be known biblically -Martin Rock, Residuum

"So where is it that you end and some else begins? Or to push this question further -- how might you use the Internet to scavenge for your own identity?"

stunning flare from one of my favorite stunners / on metadata and subjecthood-in-decay // featuring my new favorite connection, Liat Berdugo + Martin Rock !!

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Thanks Poetry Society of America for giving me a chance to talk about my covetousness and politics and my fault! 

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thanks reader freaks everywhere for putting me on this Small Press Distribution bestsellers list! glad that my fault is in your hands / you know it's your fault -- 

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The review we’re poring over today: Leora Fridman on Carrie Lorig’s The Pulp vs. the Throne (Artifice Books, 2015) at Jacket2. “Lorig’s is a wide-reaching grasp of a book that attempts [an] ultimate lack of closure, ultimate engagement and availability,” writes Fridman. More: The referential roll of these poems creates a rigor outside how we [...]

Thanks, Poetry Foundation!

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I'm thankful to Jacket2 for giving me space to talk about a book that I love by Carrie Lorig that demands space, unregulates space. The space expands to include Lauren Traetto, Caroline Crew, C.D. Wright, Amy Berkowitz, Rebecca Solnit and so many other demandants who make survival possible. Thank you!

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Full transparency: for this essay on invisible labour, I will be paid $500 CAD. I will use that money to pay my phone bill, contribute to rent, and fill up my NYC Metro card. It will be the first time I will have been paid for an essay of this kind.

Required reading from Jennifer Tamayo. Thank you, thank you.

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Happy happy home to say that I’m in the newest issue of jubilat with golden lights like Anne Boyer, Brian Foley, Camille Rankine and more. Good springtime to us.