Philip Fried

Philip Fried has published six books of poetry, the most recent being his book of poems about the national security state, Interrogating Water (Salmon, 2014). He has recently published work in Poetry, Poet Lore, Plume, The Poetry Review, and The Warwick Review. In addition to writing poetry, he is the founding editor of The Manhattan Review (1980-present), an international poetry journal.

Publishers Weekly called his fifth book, Early/Late: New and Selected Poems, "skillful and memorable," Tim Liardet writing in The Warwick Review called it "deeply subversive," and The Literary Review declared, "In realms between and including the Almighty and actuarial tables, Fried speaks every language faithfully and eloquently. Rejoice! Read!"

British poet Carol Rumens selected "Ballad," from his recently published book of poems Interrogating Water (Salmon, 2014), as the poem of the week in The Guardian (it will be featured for the week 1/5/15 - 1/12/15 and thereafter archived) . You can access the poem and Rumens's commentary on it, at this site:

http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2015/jan/05/poem-of-the-week-philip-fried-ballad-psyops

Visit Philip Fried's Web site at http://www.philiphfried.com/