2016 Paumanok Winners Read Their Poems

March 13, 2017

Thursday, 4/6, 11 a.m. Knapp Hall, University Club

Paumanok winner Alice Friman

Alice Friman, 2016 winner of FSC’s Paumanok Poetry Award, will read from her collected works. She will be joined by last year’s runners-up: Jacob M. Appel and Owen Lewis.

Friman’s last two books are Vinculum, which won a 2012 Georgia Author of the Year Award, and The View from Saturn, 2014. She is the winner of numerous awards, including the Ezra Pound Poetry Award, three prizes from Poetry Society of America, and two from the New England Poetry Club. Her work has been published in 13 countries, and her podcast series, Ask Alice, is on YouTube.

Appel is a physician, attorney and bioethicist based in New York City. He is the author of more than 200 published short stories, for which he has won than a dozen awards, including the Boston Review Short Fiction Competition, the The William Faulkner-William Wisdon Award for the Short Story, and the North American Review’s Kurt Vonnegut Prize. He teaches at the Gotham Writers’ Workshop and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Lewis’s poetry has appeared in The Mississippi Review, The Adirondack Review, Peregrine, Four Way Review, The Cumberland Review, and other publications. Honors in 2016 include First Prize in the International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. A physician and professor at Columbia University, he also teaches writing in the New Directions Writing Program at the Washington D.C. Center for Psychoanalysis.