On October 13 at 7:30 p.m., Princeton Public Library will host Poets in the Library with featured poets Daisy Fried and Jake Crist.
Each poet will read from their works for 20 minutes each. The readings will be followed by an open-mic session.
Fried lives in Philadelphia, is a faculty member of Warren Wilson College’s MFA for writers and reviews poetry for The New York Times, Poetry and the Threepenny Review.
She is the author of “Women’s Poetry: Poems and Advice,” “My Brother is Getting Arrested Again” and “He Didn’t Mean to Do It.” Her poems have recently appeared in many publications including the Best American Poetry 2013, the London Review of Books, Nation, New Republic, and American Poetry Review.
She has won the Guggenheim, Hodder and Pew Fellowships, a Pushcart Prize, the Editors’ Prize from Poetry and the Cohen Award from Ploughshares. She was also the Grace Hazard Conkling Writer-in-Residence at Smith College for two years.
Crist recently moved back to his home state of Ohio after living in Princeton for about eight years.
His poems have appeared in several journals including Shenandoah, Rattle, Pebble Lake Review, Green Mountains Review and Anglican Theological Review.
He was a finalist for a 2012 Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and is a recent recipient of a fellowship from the MacDowell Colony.
Poets in the Library is co-sponsored by the library, Delaware Valley Poets and the U.S. 1 Poets’ Cooperative.
The event will take place near the fireplace on the library’s second floor.
More information is online at princetonlibrary.org.
