December 13 – Daisy Fried and Kazim Ali – virtual

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.

Kazim Ali was born in the United Kingdom and has lived transnationally in the United States, Canada, India, France, and the Middle East. His books encompass multiple genres, including several volumes of poetry, novels, and translations. He is currently a Professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. Recent books include a volume of three long poems entitled The Voice of Sheila Chandra and a memoir of his Canadian childhood, Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water. His newest poetry collection, The Man in 119, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2026.