West Chester Uni.: Daisy Fried Announced As Poet-In-Residence For 2020 Fall Semester

Press release from West Chester University:

Sept. 3, 2020

West Chester University’s Poetry Center Welcomes DAISY FRIED as Fall, 2020 Poet-in-Residence

The West Chester University Poetry Center recently announced poet Daisy Fried as the
poet-in-residence for the fall semester from October 5 through November 20, 2020.

Cherise Pollard, Director of the West Chester University Poetry Center says, “We are
excited to host Daisy Fried as poet-in-residence and look forward to having her as
part of our community. Fried’s work pushes the boundaries of contemporary American
poetry, and we think that our community will be inspired by her creative vision and
command of craft.”

Fried will do a series of virtual events this fall, including a kick-off reading on
Wednesday, October 7, 2020 at 4:30 p.m. The event will be streamed live on Facebook
(@wcupoetry and @ArtsAtWCUPA). The event is free and open to the public. Zoom links
and registration will be forthcoming, please check https://www.wcupa.edu/arts-humanities/poetry/pir.aspx for details.

About Daisy Fried - Daisy Fried is the author of three books of poetry: Women’s Poetry: Poems and Advice, named by Library Journal as one of the five best poetry books of 2013, My Brother is Getting Arrested Again, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and She Didn’t Mean to Do It, which won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize. She has been awarded Guggenheim, Hodder
and Pew Fellowships, a Pushcart Prize, the Cohen Award from Ploughshares, and the
Editors Prize for a feature article from Poetry, for “Sing, God-Awful Muse,” about reading Paradise Lost, breastfeeding and the importance of difficulty. Recently, her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Best American Poetry, London Review of Books, Poetry, PN Review, Zocalo, Threepenny Review, Poetry International and many other journals and anthologies. She is poetry editor for the literary resistance
journal Scoundrel Time, occasionally reviews poetry for the New York Times and elsewhere, is member of the faculty of the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers, and lives in Philadelphia.

For more information on Daisy Fried visit https://daisyfried.weebly.com/.

About the West Chester University Poetry Center - The West Chester University Poetry Center was created in 2000 to further the study
and appreciation of Poetry. The Poetry Center offers an active, interesting and diverse
slate of activities, all to expand its mission of bringing poetry to an ever-widening
audience.

This press release was produced by West Chester University. The views expressed here are the author’s own.