Daly lives at 533 South Alandele Avenue, Los Angeles CA 90036. Her e.mail address is cadaly@aol.com, and is affiliated with UCLA Extension and various listservs.

So far (late 1998), Daly has gotten about 80 poems into print but has not yet had a book published. She has the following manuscripts sitting around her house, however: Engine No. 9, Locket, Manners in the Colony, Dark Night, and The Green Hotel.

The work of Barbara Guest and some of that of Barbara Hillman has been important to her, and she likes the work of Todd Baron, Spencer Selby, Karen Volkman, Ann Lauterbach (her favorite poetry teacher), Janet Holmes, Jeanne Marie Beaumont--the last three of whom have been especially supportive of her efforts.

She considers "the usual suspects" among the poets of yesteryear important to her, and she admires the criticism of Susan Howe.

About poetry she says, "I expect a great deal of thought and feeling to be behind a poem, and I tend to like poems which reflect ideas. Because I studied religion and philosophy and math, I am particularly sensitive to the misuse of many ideas commonly placed into these categories."

She likes her "poetic narration true, not fictional."

A critic as well as a poet, Daly prefers "to express critically what (she feels) the poet attempts vs. succeeds at doing. For example," she says, "Wallace Stevens mentioned that it was really what he attempted that pleased him about his work, but that he never achieved anything near that in his poetry." For a sample of her criticism, her first book review, an impression of contemporary poetry, can be found in American Letters & Commentary, 10th Anniversary issue.

She thinks "the American Contemporary Poetry 'scene' is very much like the alternative music scene of the 80s, and perhaps what the truly alternative music scene still is: an incredibly generous but fragmented variety of subgenres waiting for someone like Kurt Cobain to come along and steal all of the riffs and jam them together on a national stage."

See Daly's web site for links to poems of hers that have been published online: http://members.aol.com/cadaly.

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