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Freya Manfred

Stillwater, Minnesota
Poet Freya Manfred is the author of Swimming With A Hundred Year Old Snapping Turtle (Red Dragonfly Press, 2008). Her poetry has been published in former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser's column, "American Life in Poetry." She lives in Minnesota.
Color photograph of poet Freya Manfred wearing a scuba mask emerging from a body of water

By Freya Manfred

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Old Friends

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This Stranger, My Husband

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Green Pear Tree in September

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Swimming With A Hundred Year Old Snapping Turtle