JEFF FRIEDMAN has published eleven collections of poetry and prose, including his most recent, Broken Signals (Bamboo Dart Press, August 2024).His work has appeared in Best Microfiction five times, New Republic, Flash Fiction Funny, Plume, Smokelong Quarterly, Wigleaf, Rattle, Poetry, Fiction International, 100-Word Story, and American Poetry Review. He has received an NEA Literature Translation Fellowship and numerous other awards. Read more for Jeff's works here, Your Impossible Voice here DMQ Review and here Cleaver.
Sylvia, my lover, owns an African Yellow Parrot that she named Shirley Jones. Shirley Jones sits on her shoulder or head singing songs from the musical Carousel. When I come over one night a week, she gets locked in her cage, which is so big that it sits on the floor and houses 6 trees, innumerable shrubs, 4 trapeze swings,… Read more →