NEWS Diane is Featured in the Sunday Poem at Gwarlingo. Forthcoming Book The Crafty Poet: A Portable Workshop from Wind Publications, summer 2013 ******************************** (Click Cover for Amazon) Now Also Available for Kindle New Publication: Twelve for the Record an echapbook Diane's poem Blueberry is featured at Eat This Poem. Diane's poem Original Sin has won the First Place Prize in the Naugatuck River Review's 2012 poetry contest. The prize is $1000 and publication. Check out Diane's poems featured on Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac.

Diane Lockward is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, most recently, Temptation by Water (Wind Publications, 2010). Her earlier books are What Feeds Us, which received the Quentin R. Howard Poetry Prize, and Eve’s Red Dress. She is also the author of two chapbooks, Against Perfection and Greatest Hits: 1997 - 2010. Her poems have been published in several anthologies, including Poetry Daily: 366 Poems from the World’s Most Popular Poetry Website, Garrison Keillor's Good Poems for Hard Times, and The Poet's Cookbook. Her poems have appeared in such journals as Beloit Poetry Journal, Spoon River Poetry Review, Harvard Review, Poet Lore, and Prairie Schooner.

The recipient of a Poetry Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Diane has also received awards from North American Review, Louisiana Literature, the Newburyport Art Association, and the St. Louis Poetry Center. She won First Place in the 2012 Naugatuck River Review poetry contest. Her work has been nominated for several Pushcart Prizes, featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily, and read by Garrison Keillor on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac.

Diane has been a featured poet at a number of festivals, such as the Warren County Poetry Festival, Inkberry Festival, Long Branch Poetry Festival, Walt Whitman Poetry Festival, 2006 Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, 2007 Burlington Book Festival, and 2010 Caffe Lena Poetry Festival. She was also a featured poet at the 2005 Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching, a workshop presenter at the 2003 and 2006 New Jersey State Council of Teachers of English Conferences, a keynote speaker at the 2007 Language Arts Leadership Association Conference, and a panelist at the 2009 New Jersey College English Association.

Diane has served as a book contest reader for The Word Works Washington Prize, judge for the National Council of Teachers of English poetry contest for high school students, judge for the Valparaiso University students contest, and judge for the 2010 Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets' chapbook contest. She served as Guest Editor of the inaugural issue of Adanna and Guest Editor of the Summer 2012 issue of Ithaca Lit.

On May 17, 2009, Diane was appointed Poet Laureate of West Caldwell, NJ.

Diane Lockward is available for readings, workshops, school visits, and festivals.
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