“We are thrilled to welcome long-time Friend of Skylark Gabriel Fried to the shop on Tuesday, March 18, to celebrate the launch of his beautiful third poetry collection, No Small Thing.

The collection is already getting some stellar raves. Consider this from poet Paula Bohince: “A preternatural intelligence infuses No Small Thing as Gabriel Fried climbs and descends childhood’s lattices of fear, wonderment, and becoming. These quietly profound, radiant poems crystalize those sensations with a playfulness and technical brilliance that feel like a kind of faith. They glimmer and refract into parenthood, an age with its own questions and awes… A superb collection.”

Gabe will be joined by A. Kendra Greene, who will be reading from her stunning new collection of essays from Tin House books, No Less Strange or Wonderful.

It’s going to be a night to remember!

Gabriel Fried is the author of three collections of poetry, Making the New Lamb Take, The Children Are Reading, and No Small Thing. He is also the editor of an anthology, Heart of the Order: Baseball Poems.  He lives in Columbia, where he is Associate Professor and Director of Creative Writing at the University of Missouri.

A. Kendra Greene is a writer and book artist. She is the author and illustrator most recently of No Less Strange or Wonderful: Essays (Tin House) and  The Museum of Whales You Will Never See. Her work has come into being with fellowships from Fulbright, MacDowell, Yaddo, Dobie Paisano, and the Library Innovation Lab at Harvard.