Publisher's Synopsis
Alice Friedman is the 2014 winner of the Editors Award in the Thomas Burnett Swann poetry competition of the Gwendolyn Brooks Writers Association. Her poetry and essays have been honored both nationally and on the state level in Florida. Her work digs deeply into what it means to live a beautiful and successful life in today's times and culture. This collection also includes a tribute to her late, activist sister, Judith Rosenberg,
Praise for What Now, Courage? "I was lucky to be sitting next to a poetry-lover friend as I read this collection, so I could read it aloud and share Alice Friedman's uninhibited wit and complex depths. The theme of What Now, Courage runs through these poems, but Alice knows how to deliver the unexpected. Her women are clutzy aerobic exercisers, sassy hippies, unsentimental daughters, and fierce mothers. To borrow a phrase from her poem 'When I'm Gone', Alice's words sing and dance in the breezes of life."- G.G. Throne, journalist, essayist, short story writer. and author of the World War II novel, Secret Battles. About the Author Alice R. Friedman's articles and essays have won honors in National and State competitions of National League of America Pen Women, Florida State Poets Association and Mount Dora (Florida) Writers Competitions. Her poetry has appeared in several anthologies and on the Orlando Sentinel and WMFE-90.7 websites. In 2014 Alice won the Editors Award in the Thomas Burnett Swann Competition of the Gwendolyn Brooks Writers Association of Florida for her poem, "Forgiving Mother" which appeared in the journal Revelry. She has served as secretary of both the Florida State Poetry Association and the Orlando Chapter. A former journalist, Alice retired in 2002 to concentrate on creative writing. She is the proud mother of two and grandmother of four.
