Daisy Fried
Poet
What's New:
You can order the US version of My Destination here, here, or here!
You can order the UK version of My Destination here.
I'll be giving readings to launch My Destination both online and live. You can see the full, and developing, list here;
First up, on Tuesday October 13 is the Zoom Launch for the Carcanet (UK) edition, hosted by A.E. Stallings, which will feature me reading, plus discussion, and audience members will have the opportunity to ask their own questions.
11 a.m. PST/2 p.m. EST/7 p.m. GMT
Then, on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2026, at 7 p.m. PST
I'll be reading with Katie Peterson
Green Apple Books on the Park
1231 9th Avenue
San Francisco
(map) (more info and link to live stream here, if you can't make it in person)
And on my birthday, Sunday Nov. 1, 2026, 6 p.m. PST
I'll be reading with Dean Rader and Catherine Prescott
Bazaar Writers Salon
5927 California St.
San Francisco
(map)
Daisy Fried is the author of five books of poetry: My Destination (forthcoming October 2026), The Year the City Emptied, Women's Poetry: Poems and Advice, My Brother is Getting Arrested Again, and She Didn't Mean to Do It. The recipient of Guggenheim, Hodder, and Pew Fellowships, an occasional poetry critic, and member of the faculty of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, she lives in San Francisco.
