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
Three Scenes at the End of Last Monday
Waiting For My Turn At The Deli Counter
Battery Park City, February 1993
2025
After the Burial • Nominated for Best of the Net
John Donne at the Department Meeting, Leaking Optimism
Unlike Cicadas • Best of the Net Nominee
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
The Paper Fortune Teller• Nominated for the Pushcart Prize
2023
To David Harris, Ripon College Dean of Men, 1973
Primogeniture in the Land of Make Believe
Now I Understand, in Three Ronkas
Bob and Harvey in Gus’s Diner, Hudson and N. Moore Sts., 1975
Whence the Schadenfreude of Toast?
2022
The Reunion Abolition Act of 2022
2021
2020
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