Jeff Friedman is the author of four collections of poetry: Black Threads (forthcoming from Carnegie Mellon University Press in 2006), Taking Down the Angel (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2003), Scattering the Ashes (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1998) and The Record-Breaking Heat Wave (BkMk Press-University of Missouri-Kansas City, 1986). His poems and translations have appeared in many literary magazines, including American Poetry Review, Poetry, 5 AM,_ New England Review_, Forward, Maggid, Poetry East, Literary Imagination and The New Republic. He is a core faculty member in the M.F.A. program in Poetry Writing at New England College. (updated 7/2006)