Shameless Self Promotion:
My poem Without - at Montucky Review (online)
http://montuckyreview.blogspot.com/2011/09/without_28.html
My poem: Truth Be Told - at The Michigan Poet
http://www.jonbergmann.com/mptest/2011/04/judith-minty-2/
My poem: Review of The Ordinary - at Red River Review
http://www.redriverreview.net/A55656/RRR.nsf/AUGUST11/86F160714190F5EE852578DB007CE6C0?opendocument
Here you can read a short (two page) Memoir I wrote
http://orangequarterly.com/2011/10/assisted-living/
http://www.muttonline.com/
An article I wrote entitled: Getting Our "selves" into a poem
YouTube of me reading a few poems at the Benefit for Chico
Click on Joy Gaines-Friedler - I start at 1:49
http://roguebardmedia.com/2011/06/24/videos-from-the-benefit-for-chico/
Audio of me reading my poem Assisted Living on RATTLE's Audio Archive :
http://rattle.com/blog/2009/02/assisted-living-by-joy-gaines-friedler/
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Other Great Stuff:
2009 BEAR RIVER REVIEW:
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/UMICH/bearriver/Home/Bear%20River%20Review/2008-2009_BRR.pdf
http://www.themichiganpoet.com/ - hey - I'm featured in April, 2011
A couple of my Haikus on this e-zine - www.blackdahliajournal.com
Poetry Mountain Literary Magazine Center: - one of the best sources for all writers (not just poetry) for finding literary magazines and literary links.
http://www.poetrymountain.com/literarymagazines.html
Monkeybicycle – a great online or published journal - In 2007, Monkeybicycle became an imprint of Dzanc Books, a flourishing small press in Ann Arbor, MI.
http://www.monkeybicycle.net/submissions.html
Poets & Writers, Inc. is the primary source of information, support, and guidance for creative writers, and the publisher of Poets & Writers Magazine. If you are serious about writing you should join this organization and receive this magazine.
www.pw.org
Writer's Digest is the No. 1 magazine for writers, celebrating the writing life and what it means to be a writer in today's publishing environment. Another really informative and worthwhile magazine.
www.writersdigest.com
Duotrope's Digest is a free, online resource for writers of fiction and poetry. Sends out publishing information - contests and deadlines.
www.duotrope.com
AWP: The mission of The Association of Writers & Writing Programs is to foster literary talent and achievement, to advance the art of writing as essential to a good education, and to serve the makers, teachers, students, and readers of contemporary writing
www.awpwriter.org
A very good description of creative non-fiction
www://writingmemoirs.suite101.com/article.cfm/what_is_creative_nonfiction
BREVITY publishes essays of 750 words or less. Nonfiction only.
www.creativenonfiction.org/brevity
New pages - a wonderful guide to literary magazines - poetry, fiction, non-fiction
www.newpages.com/literary-magazines
An interview with fiction writer Peter Markus (he writes very short fiction - "short shorts"
Peter is from Detroit and teaches for InsideOut Literary Arts Program in the Detroit Public Schools (I also work for IO).
www.writingclasses.com/InformationPages/index.php/PageID/297
An interview with poet Gerry LaFemina (so good. Teacher at Frostburg State University, MD)
http://silencedpress.com/news
"I still believe in poetry—I believe in its values of helping us to live our lives, and of connecting with each other and continuing to perform operations on the diseased patient of American culture and individual psyches." An interview with poet Tony Hoagland
www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19684
Saginaw is the home of Theodore Roethke - check out this celebration of
mid-Michigan culture Edited by Jeanne Lesinki http://www.360mainstreet.com