Poet Gabriel Fried Continues Writers on the Shore Series October 4

SALISBURY, MD---Poet Gabriel Fried continues this fall’s Writers on the Shore literary series at Salisbury University, reading from his works 8 p.m. Wednesday, October 4, in the Worcester Room of the Commons.

Fried is the author of two poetry collections, The Children are Reading and Making the New Lamb Take, named a “Best Book of 2007” by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The American Scholar and The Paris Review, among other journals and magazines.

He is the long-time poetry editor at Persea Books, an independently owned, literary publishing house based in New York. Fried also is the editor of the anthology Heart of the Order: Baseball Poems.

Sponsored by the English Department and Writers on the Shore, admission is free and the public is invited. For more information call 410-543-6445 or visit the SU website at www.salisbury.edu.