{"id":3799,"date":"2007-09-27T14:33:12","date_gmt":"2007-09-27T19:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesviews.net\/?p=3799"},"modified":"2015-06-26T13:25:02","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T17:25:02","slug":"gabriel-fried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2007\/09\/27\/gabriel-fried\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabriel Fried &#039;96 reads from award-winning poetry collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2007\/09\/friedgabriel.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"96\" height=\"108\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2007\/09\/friedgabriel.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"Gabriel Fried &#039;96\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The English department opens its 2007-08 Visiting Writers Series with a reading by poet Gabriel Fried, Bates Class of 1996, at 7:30 p.m. tonight in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, 56 Campus Ave. The public is invited to attend free of charge.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Fried returns to Bates with a major publication award in hand. He received the Katharine Morton Prize from Sarabande Books for his first collection of poems, <em>Making the New Lamb Take<\/em> (2007). Michael Ryan, who chose the book for publication in an open competition, wrote: &#8220;It&#8217;s impossible for me to imagine poems more fully integrated or more fully realized than those in this book, and it&#8217;s heartening to me that these poems were written by someone so young. That Gabriel Fried has the talent, skill, intelligence and wisdom to have an exceptional future as a poet is unquestionable, but this first book of his already represents a mature accomplishment of the art.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fried follows his Bates reading with appearances at the University of Virginia, the poetry reading series Observable Readings in St. Louis, Mo., and Rutgers University.<\/p>\n<p>Fried grew up in upstate New York. His poems have appeared in a number of journals, including <em>The American Scholar<\/em>, <em>Drunken Boat,<\/em> <em>The Gettysburg Review<\/em>, <em>The Great River Review<\/em>, and <em>The Paris Review.<\/em> He lives in New York City, where he edits the poetry series at <a href=\"http:\/\/perseabooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Persea Books<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The English department opens its 2007-08 Visiting Writers Series with a reading by poet Gabriel Fried, Bates Class of 1996, tonight in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, 56 Campus Ave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[4,7,133,39,179],"tags":[3271,3727],"class_list":["post-3799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-life","category-alumni","category-creativity","category-event-highlights","category-language-literature","tag-english6","tag-gabriel-fried"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3799"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89570,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3799\/revisions\/89570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}