Professional Activities

Jeff Friedman’s sixth book, Pretenders, has just been published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. The book combines poems and prose pieces. His poems, mini stories and translations have appeared in many literary magazines, including American Poetry Review, Poetry, New England Review, Poetry International, Quick Fiction, North American Review, Missouri Review, Ontario Review, Antioch Review, Agni Online, Big Bridge, 100-Word Story, Prairie Schooner, Sentence, New England Review Digital, Vestal Review, Plume, Flash Fiction Funny, The New Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish Poets, and The New Republic.

Rodney Obien (Mason Library) was appointed by Governor Maggie Hassan to serve on the New Hampshire State Historical Records Advisory Board (SHRAB) for a two-year term. SHRAB is an advisory group that coordinates efforts to develop and implement programs that address priorities for access, preservation, and digitization of New Hampshire’s historical records.