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Daisy Fried

@daisyfried.bsky.social

Poet, critic, learning a few things. Four books: The Year the City Emptied Women's Poetry: Poems and Advice My Brother is Getting Arrested Again She Didn't Mean to Do It

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Daisy Fried@daisyfried.bsky.social · 2y ago

My daughter and I were supposed to fly to Athens tonight. Given what I'm reading about the chaos caused by the fire near Heathrow, I'm gonna go ahead and say that I have finally found a silver lining to her timing in breaking her tibia so that we had to cancel our trip.

Daisy Fried@daisyfried.bsky.social · 2y ago

Leafing through The Hand of the Poet, a book of images of poems in handwritten manuscript from about 30 years ago, I come across the information that Shelley drowned with a volume of Keats doubled back in his pocket (it helped identify his body when he washed ashore.) And suddenly I wonder...

Philip Gourevitch@pgourevitch.bsky.social · 2y ago

"USIP employees called the Metropolitan Police Department and reported it as a break-in. Police cars were outside USIP headquarters in Northwest D.C. Monday evening." www.nbcwashington.com/news/preside...

US Institute of Peace says DOGE has broken into its building

Employees of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency have entered the U.S. Institute of Peace despite protests from the nonprofit that it is not part of the executive branch and is instead an ...

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Daisy Fried@daisyfried.bsky.social · 2y ago

Obama, both Clintons, Biden, and Harris should all be speaking out, loudly, and urging the populace to action. Have they been doing this on some media platform I haven't seen?

Carcanet Press@carcanet.bsky.social · 2y ago

On Wednesday 19th March at 7pm, please join us online to celebrate the launch of A History of Western Music by August Kleinzahler. The event will be hosted by John McAuliffe and will feature readings, discussion & audience Q&A. Book your ticket here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_t1tNl...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: A History of Western Music by August Kleinzahler: Carcanet Book Launch. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Please join us to celebrate the launch of A History of Western Music by August Kleinzahler. The reading will be hosted by John McAuliffe. The event will feature readings and discussion, and audience members will have the opportunity to ask their own questions. We will show the text during readings so that you can read along. In a career-spanning selection of poems, August Kleinzahler captures the essence of the West’s greatest music. In A History of Western Music, August Kleinzahler’s rhythmic, wry, kinetic style captures the ineffable power and beauty of great songs and artists, as well as the potency of our response to them. In this collection, music is inextricable from life, from landscape, and from the people we remember through it. The poet inhabits the minds and milieus of musicians; he hears arpeggios in the salon of Princesse Edmonde de Polignac and listens to the vibrations of a hummingbird through Béla Bartók. Kleinzahler’s verse not only contains the same sonorous beauty as the compositions he writes of but also the vitality and complexity of the moments we associate with them—the way the soundtrack of one’s life becomes defined by the scenes it scores, and vice versa. From John Coltrane to Annie Lennox, from opera to bebop and all the jingles and melodies in between, A History of Western Music is a portrait of the vast range of meaning and memory that music creates and contains in one’s life. Registration for this online event will cost £2, redeemable against the cost of the book. You will receive the discount code and instructions for how to purchase the book in your confirmation email as well as during and after the event.

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Daisy Fried@daisyfried.bsky.social · 2y ago

Okay metallic and reflecting dresses are the red carpet thing this year. Fine! I like Halle Berry’s best so far. Do I like Chalamet’s yellow suit. Do I even like Chalamet? Not sure…

Daisy Fried@daisyfried.bsky.social · 2y ago

The address of Ukraine embassy in DC is emb_us@mfa.gov.ua. You can write to express your outrage, shame, and horror at the actions of Trump and Vance, and your respect for President Zelensky and the Ukrainian people.

Daisy Fried@daisyfried.bsky.social · 2y ago

I don't believe in murder but I understand the anger at health insurance companies. IBX was awful during Jim's illness & death. Here's my poem "Dr. No," which appears in my book The Year the City Emptied. It's "after" (very distantly) Baudelaire's "Le Jeu," about a courtesan at a gaming table.

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