Poetry Reading: GABRIEL FRIED "The Children Are Reading"

“I know of no contemporary poet who captures the mystery of childhood with as much accuracy, force, and empathy as Gabriel Fried. …I hear Marilynne Robinson’s spiritual questioning here, and Frost’s burnished dread…”—Catherine Barnett “If you have any doubt about the ominousness of childhood—its fundamental, and often terrifying mysteries—read Gabriel Fried’s The Children Are Reading.”—Ross Gay GABRIEL FRIED is the author of Making the New Lamb Take, winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize. He is also the editor of an anthology, Heart of the Order: Baseball Poems and longtime poetry editor of Persea Books.