Jerry Friedman
Poetry and stuff
I live in Española, New Mexico, and teach physics at Santa Fe Community College. Here's the page about me at SFCC. The picture at that page should probably be updated.
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My full name is Gerald Friedman, and that's what I've mostly used for poetry and physics.
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You can reach me at jerry_friedman@yahoo.com.
2020
Poetry
If the title is linked, it goes to a page here, and the poem may have been slightly revised since print publication. If the publication is linked, the link goes to the poem or poems at the publication.
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Yes, I took about 20 years off from submitting poetry to magazines.
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You can hear me reading some of my poems on this episode of the wonderful Eat the Storms podcast.
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"Green Grass Growing"
Rat's Ass Review, Fall-Winter 2023
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One tanka
Cold Moon Journal, February 3, 2023
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"Night by the Convenience Store"
One Sentence Poems, January 6, 2023
Blue Unicorn, Fall 2022
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"When I Talked With the Learn'd Astronomer"
Abandoned Mine, November 2022
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One haiku (p. 13)
"Santa Fe Hike" (p. 156)
Cattails, October 2022
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One haiku
Under the Basho, October 19, 2022
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Two haiga (combinations of haiku and photographs)
contemporary haibun online 18,2 haiga gallery (images 3 and 4)
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"Origin Myth"
"The Poets' Duel"
"Dissatisfaction"
"The Earthworm's Song"
Medusa's Kitchen, July 23, 2022
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"A Constitutional Among Pinyons and Junipers"
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One haiku
Miriam's Well (Miriam Sagan's blog), May 2, 2002
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Last Stanza Poetry Journal, Issue #8, 2022
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"Headlong"
"The Wish" (nominated for a Pushcart prize)
Rat's Ass Review, Spring-Summer 2022
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"A Race of the Red-tailed Hawk"
As It Ought to Be Magazine, December 2021
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Four haiku
Better Than Starbucks, November 2021
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"I've Heard That Too Often"
Better Than Starbucks, August 2021
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"Conceited Madrigal"
"The Crowd"
"Falling Silent"
Bindweed Magazine, 2021. (You'll probably have to scroll down.)
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"Discobolus" (microfiction)
The Ekphrastic Review, June 15, 2021
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"River Snow" (translation from Liu Zongyuan--the one on the left is better)
Ming Aretê, uploaded June, 2021
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"Isolating Myself"
"The Bluebird's Warning"
Rat's Ass Review, Summer 2021
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"Isolating Myself" with footnotes
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Three haiga
Daily Haiga, 2021
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"Streak"
Undertow Poetry Review / La Resaca, 2021
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"Woods Outside Cleveland, Ohio"
Bluepepper Review, May 9, 2021
I was confused about Native peoples when I wrote this one. The Assistaeronon lived near the western end of Lake Erie. The people who lived near what is now Cleveland until about 1640 are known only from archeology; their artifacts are called the Whittlesey tradition after the first archeologist to find them. For now change "the Assistaeronon, the Fire Nation" to "the 'Whittlesey' people".
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Haiku about fireflies
Asahi Haikuist Network, May 7, June 18, and September 3, 2021
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"Dear Editor" (might not exactly be poetry)
The Daily Drunk, May 2, 2021
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"Stood Up"
​Sledgehammer, April 6, 2021
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"Next to Godliness"
"Devils"
​Bombfire, January 16, 2021
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"The Managed Wild Garden in New Mexico"
"Spring Assurance"
​Rat's Ass Review, Winter 2020
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"Rhapsody"
​Entropy, October 27, 2020.
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"My Window (Champaign, Illinois)"
​Panoply, Autumn 2020
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"Summer Solstice", "Nocturne", and "Tommy Again"
Quatrain.Fish, 2020
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"Swearing"
​Rat's Ass Review, Summer 2020
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​Santa Fe Literary Review, 2016
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"Elegy"
​Tower, Winter 1996-97
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"My Window: A Road on the Olympic Peninsula"
Rhino, 1996
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​Potpourri, Vol. 8, No. 2 1996
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​El Fogón, Spring 1995
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​Jemez Thunder, 1995
​Other stuff on line
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​​A timeline of Vladimir Nabokov's novel Pale Fire
A number of explanatory notes on Dorothy L. Sayers's novel Gaudy Night
Chapters 1 and 2 of University Physics, Volume 2, a free on-line textbook from OpenStax. I was the lead author for those chapters, which incorporate material from books by Samuel J. Ling, William Moebs, Jeff Sanny, and Peter Urone.
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Four Tolkien fanfics, serious to comic, not "slash" (sexual).
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You can see my photographs, mostly of nature, at my Flickr site, as well as accompanying other people's poems at Feral, Issue 15. Here are two samples from Flickr:
Cedar Waxwing
Me trying to take a picture of a low-flying dragonfly