Working in both color and in black and white, his subjects — sometimes family, sometimes random people, sometimes buildings or streets with nobody in sight — can have the warmth and intensity of his poems.
—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
15 Aug. 2026
For Fried is, as his poems prove, a writer attuned to the shape of thought and the sound of a word.
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