Gregg Friedberg grew up in Columbus, Ohio but for many years has lived in Upper Sandusky, a rural county seat, and nowadays spends half of each year in Guanajuato, Mexico, where he participates in the bilingual arts-and-culture scene, gives regular readings, and is a coeditor of the literary journal La Presa published by Embajadoras Press.
Professionally he’s been a partner in a computer software company, writing applications for Ohio county government, but has always written poetry, is happiest when writing sustained sequences, loosely but not conventionally narrative, treating a matrix of themes from an evolving perspective.
The Best Seat Not in the House (Main Street Rag, 2010; Embajadoras Press, 2017) examines the vexed relationship between Creator and creature, whether God and man or author and protagonist. In What’s Wrong (Kelsay Books, 2022), a longer sequence, the first-person narrator is a refugee from American marketing culture.
Friedberg is completing a collection of photographs with corresponding texts, The Artist’s Reception, the result of the black-and-white figure photography project he’s been working on for the past several years. The texts gradually reveal the story of the speaker and the ‘figure’ in the photos. Excerpts from the work have appeared in the art magazines, NyghtVision, Tagree, Noisy Rain, tMf, Vitruvian Lens, and Daydreaming.
For ten years Friedberg was a member of Frank Bidart’s summer workshop at Skidmore College.
Reprint
Paperback: 88 pages
Publisher: Kelsay Books (December 15, 2022)
Originally Appeared
Paperback: 88 pages
Publisher: Kelsay Books/Aldrich Press (September 15, 2015)