He built a house out of wood in which to lose his grief. To fill the house, he stole crumbs from the lips of strangers as their tongues searched their mouths. He stole the sadness floating in the eyes of the bereaved....
Grief
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Jeff Friedman
Jeff Friedman's eleventh book, Broken Signals, was published by Bamboo Dart Press in August 2024. Friedman’s poems and micros have appeared in American Poetry Review, Poetry, Poetry International, Fiction International, New England Review, Vestal Review, Wigleaf, Smokelong Quarterly, Rattle, Plume, On the Seawall, Dreaming Awake: New Contemporary Prose Poetry from the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom, Flash Fiction Funny, Contemporary Surrealist and Magical Realist Anthology, Best Microfiction 2021 2022, 2023,2024, and 2025, and The New Republic. He has received an NEA Literature Translation Fellowship, two individual artist grants from the New Hampshire Arts Council, and numerous other awards.