Donald Sidney-Fryer, an American poet, critic and literary historian, died on May 2, 2026, at age 91.
He was also a ballet historian and performer, and his work spanned poetry, essay, short story, fiction and solo performance. Born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, on September 8, 1934, he was raised there and later served in the United States Marine Corps, where he first began reading science fiction.
Sidney-Fryer described Edmund Spenser and Clark Ashton Smith as his two poetic mentors and saw his poetry as part of a “Modern Romanticism” tradition.
Donald Sidney-Fryer, 91, American poet, critic and literary historian, bone cancer.