Diane Lockward Explained

Diane Lockward is an American poet. The author of four full-length books of poetry, Lockward serves as the Poet Laureate of West Caldwell, New Jersey.

Biography

Diane Lockward earned her bachelor's degree from Elmira College and her master's from Montclair State University. She is the author of four full-length books of poetry: The Uneaten Carrots of Atonement (2016), Temptation by Water (2010), What Feeds Us (2006), recipient of the Quentin R. Howard Poetry Prize,^[1] and Eve's Red Dress (2003), all from Wind Publications. She is also the author/editor of four poetry craft books, The Strategic Poet: Honing the Craft, The Practicing Poet: Writing Beyond the Basics (Terrapin Books, 2018), The Crafty Poet II: A Portable Workshop (Terrapin Books, 2016) and The Crafty Poet: A Portable Workshop (rev. ed., Terrapin Books, 2016), and two chapbooks, Eve Argues Against Perfection (1997) and Greatest Hits: 1997-2010 (2012). Her poems have been published in Prairie Schooner, Spoon River Poetry Review, Poet Lore, Harvard Review, and elsewhere. Her poems have also been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, Gwarlingo, American Life in Poetry, and The Writer's Almanac. She is the recipient of a Poetry Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and a Woman of Achievement Award. She serves as the Poet Laureate of West Caldwell, New Jersey. She founded the Poetry Festival: A Celebration of Literary Journals^[2] in 2004 and served as its director for twelve years. A former high school English teacher at Millburn High School, she has also worked as a poet-in-the-schools for the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. She is the founder and publisher of Terrapin Books, a small press for poetry books. She lives in northern New Jersey.

Works

Books

Book: Lockward, Diane. The Uneaten Carrots of Atonement. 2016. Wind Publications. Nicholasville, KY. 978-0-9969871-1-0.
Book: Lockward, Diane. The Crafty Poet: A Portable Workshop. 2013. Wind Publications. Nicholasville, KY. 978-1-9361386-2-3.
Book: Lockward, Diane. Temptation by Water. 2010. Wind Publications. Nicholasville, KY. 978-1-9361381-2-8.
Book: Lockward, Diane. What Feeds Us. 2006. Wind Publications. Nicholasville, KY. 978-1-8932395-7-9.
Book: Lockward, Diane. Eve's Red Dress. 2003. Wind Publications. Nicholasville, KY. 978-1-8932391-8-0.
Book: Lockward, Diane. Greatest Hits: 1997-2010. 2012. Kattywommpus Press. Cleveland Heights, OH. 978-1936715114.
Eve Argues Against Perfection (1997)

Anthologies

Poetry Daily: 366 Poems from the World's Most Popular Poetry Website
Good Poems for Hard Times^[3]
In a Fine Frenzy: Poets Respond to Shakespeare
The Working Poet: 75 Writing Exercises and a Poetry Anthology
The Poet's Cookbook
Poem, Home: An Anthology of Ars Poetica
Eating Her Wedding Dress: A Collection of Clothing Poems
White Ink: Poems on Mothers and Motherhood
Sweeping Beauty: Contemporary Women Poets Do Housework
Family Matters: Poems of Our Families
The Breath of Parted Lips
Poetry: A Pocket Anthology
Mischief, Caprice and Other Poetic Strategies
Inside Literature: Reading, Responding, Arguing

Textbooks

Wingbeats, Vol. 2 (Dos Gatos, 2014)
The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2014)
Literature to Go (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2013)
Poetry: An Introduction (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2013)
The Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2013)
Inside Literature: Reading, Responding, Arguing (Penguin Academics, 2007)
Getting the Knack: 20 Poetry Writing Exercises (National Council of Teachers of English, 1992)

Honors

Poetry Fellowship, 2003, from the New New Jersey State Council on the Arts
Quentin R. Howard Poetry Prize for What Feeds Us, 2006
Sunday Poet at Gwarlingo
First Prize Winner in 2012 Naugatuck River Review Poetry Contest
Featured Poet at 2007 Burlington Book Festival
Featured Poet at 2016 and 2006 Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival
Featured Poet at 2005 Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching
Featured Poet at 2001 Warren County Poetry Festival
Featured Poet at Valparaiso Poetry Review
Featured Poet at Poetry Southeast
The Missing Wife on Verse Daily
Birdhouse on Verse Daily
Seventh-Grade Science Project^[4] on Poetry Daily
My Husband Discovers Poetry on The Writer's Almanac
Linguini on The Writer's Almanac
Blueberry on The Writer's Almanac
The First Artichoke on The Writer's Almanac
Idiosyncrasies of the Body in 2008 Best of the Net, selected by Dorianne Laux

References

External links

- Pyromania in Prairie Schooner
Hunger in the Garden in Valparaiso Poetry Review
Three Poems in Escape into Life
Six poems read by Garrison Keillor on The Writer's Almanac

Notes and References

http://windpub.com/media/media-WhatFeedsUs.htm Quentin R. Howard Poetry Prize
http://www.lasplash.com/publish/Entertainment/cat_index_nyc_events/new-jersey-poetry-festival-celebration-of-literary-journals-2011-draws-hundreds.php Poetry Festival: A Celebration of Literary Journals
Book: Keillor, Garrison. Good Poems for Hard Times. 31 July 2013. 2006. Penguin Group USA. 9780143037675. 316.
http://www.dianelockward.com/mac/Poetry_Daily_8.1.08.html Seventh-Grade Science Project