Daisy Fried

(Of course I think this is wrong and disturbing & am happy to collect whatever peanuts the class action suit brings.)

Meta AI missed two of my four books, the f*ckers! Plus among the dozen or so poems & articles they did pirate, they missed a TON of online content, prose & poetry that I've published over the years. What am I, chopped liver?

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.

if O'Hara's "my heart is in my/pocket, it is Poems by Pierre Reverdy" was intended as an echo of that. After all, the lines end "A Step Away From Them," a poem aware of death in the middle of life; the poet-persona who describes the midtown scene is practically drowning in what he describes.

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...

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 ...

"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."

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"a savage servility/slides by on grease." Lowell wrote that about Schumer and GIllibrand?

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.

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If you want a little lift listen to VP Twerpypants Vance booed at the Kennedy Center.

It's not about Trump. Trump has shit for brains and for morals. It's about getting people who do care but feel helpless or passive to take action.

Poems by Daisy Fried - Ilanot Review Fasces 1. When, under the avenue, I disembarked to oozy goothat dripped from cracks that wideneach time a train slams through, and picking my slushy wayin my boots, quite randomly I rememberedthe ridd...

Text of both poems is here: www.ilanotreview.com/translation-...

YouTube video by Ilanot Review Daisy Fried "Fasces"

In which I read "Fasces," one of my two poems in the latest issue of the The Ilanot Review. Fasces are bundle of rods with a projecting axe blade, carried in ancient Roman processions as a symbol of power, also used as an emblem of authority in Fascist Italy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr3F...

Michelle Obama just announced a podcast she’s doing with her brother

Huh, so you're saying they only care about this stuff if there's a possibility of being elected, not because it might be the right thing to do to use their platform to try and get people to resist and get out on the street? Like, they have so much money it won't touch them and screw the rest of us?

Are you suggesting that they should sulk? What exactly would that achieve?

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?

Musk is doing his best to destroy America. He’s the traitor.

Al Green should wear his censure as a badge of honor. How about more dems go for the big censure?

Orthopedic trainer just called my daughter’s knee “boggy” #metaphorsspottedinthewild

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.

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.

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Two new poems, each with a relationship, direct or glancing, to fascism. Big thanks to the editors of The Ilanot Review! www.ilanotreview.com/translation-...

And…….Conan makes an anti-Trump anti-Putin joke! Yes!

Finally straightforward political commentary from the documentary film makers. Well done.

The adapted screenplay winner was wearing a Ukraine flag ribbon 👍👍

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…

Coleman Domingo has the best suit

I wish to invite all the protesters from campuses last year, with whom I sympathized, now to turn out against the current American government.

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.

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Trump, Vance go off on Zelensky in contentious Oval Office spat President Trump went off on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during an extraordinary Oval Office meeting in front of cameras on Friday in which he raised his voice and called the foreign lead…

Trump and Vance are malicious twerps. thehill.com/homenews/adm...