• The Friend
  • Assistant Teaching Professor
  • Bio: The Friend is the author of two books of poetry, both published by W. W. Norton’s historic Liveright imprint. Their debut collection, The Late Parade, was published in 2013 and was hailed by The New York Times Sunday Book Review as “a new and welcome sound in the aviary of contemporary poetry.” In 2016, their second book of poems, George Washington, was published and reviewed in The New York Times, Bookforum, Interview Magazine, Boston Review and elsewhere. The Friend is currently at work on a nonfiction manuscript about the origins of white supremacy and its relationship to anti-black violence. The Friend a professor in creative writing at Rutgers University and lives in New York City. Selected publications: "George Washington," BOMB "Our Lady of South Dakota," New Republic "The Lordly Hudson," The New Yorker "Oregon Trail," Hyperallergic "George Washington," Poetry "Poem With Accidental Memory," Poetry "Time After Time," Poetry