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Alice Friman
I did not set out to write poetry: to
choose a life dedicated to the lonely struggle of stringing words
together. In a society of click-on instant gratification where we’re
bombarded by messages promising paradise if we buy a certain brand of
toilet paper, such word-stringing is negated. But what was my choice? I
wished to live deeply, not just on the surface of things. Art begins
where science leaves off. And it was art that offered me a rope, not a
rope to pull me out of life, but a rope to lower me more deeply in it.
To go down under the glittering surface and come up with the news of
what I found there. To hang on to the rope of language, just as the
visual artist hangs on a rope of color and line, the composer a rope
ladder of tones.
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Education:
 | Brooklyn College, B.A.,
1950-1954 |
| Indiana University-Indianapolis, 1964-1966 |
| Butler University,
M.A. in English, 1966-1971 |
Professional
Experience:
| Editorial Assistant, The Georgia Review. Fall
2006. |
| Poetry Editor, Arts & Letters
Journal of
Contemporary Culture, and Instructor of Creative
Writing and Poetry at Georgia College & State University,
Milledgeville, 2003-2006 |
| Professor Emerita of English and Creative
Writing, 1993-, University of Indianapolis (at U of I, 1971-93) |
| See “In the Service of the Muse: Alice Friman.”
By Rebecca Blair. Profiles in Service. Indianapolis: U of Indianapolis
P, 2006. 96-99. |
| Visiting
Professor at Ball State University, 1996 |
| Writer in Residence, Curtin University, Perth, Australia,
1989 |
| Visiting
Professor at Indiana State
University, 1982 |
| Visiting
Professor at IUPUI, 1971-74 |
Faculty Positions at Writers’ Conferences:
| The Gettysburg Review Conference for Writers.
June 6-11, 2007 |
| Featured Writer for Poetry.
Grand Valley State University Writers Retreat, Grand Rapids, MI. August 2005 |
| Poetry Workshop. Arts & Letters Workshops. Georgia College &
State University, Milledgeville, May 2004, May 2005 |
| Poetry Workshop.
Midwest Writers Conference, Ball State University, Muncie, IN. July 1994,
July 1998 |
| Numerous workshops for conferences sponsored by the Writers’
Center of Indiana, since the 1970s |
Courses Taught:
| Georgia
College & State University (2004-): Advanced Poetry Workshop (Grad)
Advanced Creative Writing (Grad/Undergrad) |
| Ball State University: Poetry
Writing (Grad/Undergrad, 1996) |
| University of Indianapolis (1971-93):
Graduate: Eighteenth-Century Literature; Readings in American Literature.
Grad/Undergrad: Contemporary American Poetry; English Poetry (to
Tennyson); Modern Poetry. Undergraduate: Creative Writing; Contemporary
American Literature; Myth, Folklore, Fantasy; American Literature I; Short
Story; Children's Literature; Poetry Seminar: Hopkins, Frost, Yeats,
Eliot; Structure of American English; Drama of Ancient Greece; Honors
Literature; Freshman Comp and Lit; Basic Writing |
| Curtin University
(Australia): Poetry Writing (Undergrad, 1989) |
| IUPUI: Children's
Literature, Freshman Comp, Freshman Lit
(Undergrad, 1971-74) |
Memberships
in Artistic and Professional Organizations:
| Poetry Society of America |
| Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) |
| New England Poetry Club |
| Modern Language Association |
| South Atlantic Modern Language Association |
| Writers’ Center of Indiana: Charter Member 1979,
Board
Member 1984-89, Honorary Life Member 1993 |
Recent Judgings:
| Judge of poetry
manuscripts, MVP Competition, New Rivers Press, 2005 |
| Final Judge, James
Boatwright III Prize for Poetry, Shenandoah, 2003 |
Editorial Work:
| Editorial Assistant, The Georgia Review. Fall
2006. |
| Poetry Editor, Arts & Letters Journal of
Contemporary Culture, Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, 2003-present |
| Poetry Editor, The Flying Island, Writers' Center
of Indiana, 1993, 1996, 2001 |
| Editor, Loaves and Fishes: A Book of Indiana
Women Poets. Writers' Center Press, Indianapolis, 1983 |
SEE AWARDS AND HONORS
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