Rob S. Friedman
Collected Poems
Most of these poems appeared first at poetsonline.org, each in response to a prompt from the editor. Exceptions noted accordingly.
2026
Addie Bundren’s Ride Home
Petey in Paradise
US 81
Roll Over Beethoven
2025
Sorting
After the Burial • Nominated for Best of the Net
John Donne at the Department Meeting, Leaking Optimism
Flower Power, in Four Scenes
Ode to Propofol
Unlike Cicadas • Best of the Net Nominee
What Do You Want for Dinner?
Ode to Faulkner’s Addie Bundren
El Cajon Blvd and 30th St., North Park, San Diego
The Unbearable Beauty of Ballet
2024
When the Mourning Doves Return
Right Turn
Grandma’s Mordant Potpourri
Crank
In a Better Place
The General Store
NYC Open Space 143
Boy, I Say Boy!
The Paper Fortune Teller
Ponytail
The Star-Spangled Banner
That Picture
2023
Rye Playland
To David Harris, Ripon College Dean of Men, 1973
Wisconsin Winter, 1974
Primogeniture in the Land of Make Believe
In the Old Mina Rees Library
Ode to Henry David Thoreau
Now I Understand, in Three Ronkas
Bob and Harvey in Gus’s Diner, Hudson and N. Moore Sts., 1975
The Noise and the Signal
Whence the Schadenfreude of Toast?
Above and Below
2022
Obliquity
The Jarlsberg’s In
To Jill, Class of ’77
Jones Beach
Near Montauk
Anthropomorphize Now
The Reunion Abolition Act of 2022
Stem Resistant
21st-Century Western Dream
The Fiction of Tenses
A Guide to American Letters
2021
Taps
Morning Walk
Etch A Sketch
Snow
Exit
Camelot
A Birthday Note for You, Son
Hawthorne and Melville
RIP, Dad
System Preferences
Par 4
2020
San Diego Sunrise
My Sister’s Lamp
One Thing’s For Sure
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