Philip Fried

Philip Fried is a New York-based poet, magazine editor, and poetry advocate. Fried's poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Poetry After 9-11: An Anthology of New York Poets. His two previous books of poetry are Mutual Trespasses (1988) and Quantum Genesis (1997), which A.R. Ammons called "a major new testament." In addition to being a poet, Fried is the founding editor of The Manhattan Review, an international poetry journal that critics have called "excellent" and "lively." He also collaborated with his wife, the fine-art photographer Lynn Saville, on a volume combining her nocturnal photographs with poetry from around the world: Acquainted with the Night (Rizzoli, 1997). Finally, as a poetry advocate, Fried organized a successful nationwide campaign to increase the number and quality of poetry reviews in The New York Times.