ESU Welcomes Award-Winning, Nationally Recognized Poet

Daisy Fried has a way with words. The award-winning, nationally recognized poet will be sharing her work at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania on Thursday, April 16 at 4 p.m. in Beers Lecture Hall.

Fried is the author of three books of poems: Women’s Poetry: Poems and Advice, My Brother is Getting Arrested Again and She Didn’t Mean to Do it. She received Guggenheim, Hodder and Pew Fellowships for her poetry, as well as a Pushcart Prize and the Cohen Award from Ploughsares. Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2013, London Review of Books, Poetry, The Nation, The New Republic, American Poetry Review, Threepenny Review, and other literary journals. She reviews books of poetry for the New York Times, Poetry and Threepenny Review and received Poetry magazine’s Editor’s Prize for a Feature Article for “Sing God-Awful Muse,” an essay about reading Paradise Lost and breastfeeding. She lives in South Philadelphia and is on the faculty of the low-residency MFA program at Warren Wilson College.

“It is a privilege for the ESU community to hear in person the work of such a distinguished writer,” Jan Selving, assistant professor of English, said. “She is a major voice in American poetry who is able to place broader, societal, political issues in the context of the personal and every day circumstances that govern our lives.”

The poetry reading is sponsored by Calliope, ESU’s student-edited literary magazine, the English Department, the College of Arts & Sciences, the Women’s Center, Writing Studio, Kemp Library and the Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity.

This event is open to the public and it is free of charge. For more information contact Professor Selving at 570-422-3071, or jselving@esu.edu.

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