Philip Fried is a New York-based poet and editor of The Manhattan Review. His poems have been widely published in journals and have appeared in many anthologies, including Salmon: A Journey in Poetry Poetry, Poems 1981 - 2007 and Poetry After 9-11: An Anthology of New York Poets. 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 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).

Other poems by Philip Fried in Verse Daily:
August 11, 2006:   "Big Men Speaking to Little Men" " Slowly the black snake severs the path..."

Books by Philip Fried:

Other poems on the web by Philip Fried:
"Short Line Drive (in the Garden State)"
"The Kibitzer"
Four poems
"The Oral Tradition"