News: Diane's poem "Blueberry" featured on Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac, Sunday, April 19, 2009
Diane's poem "After the Ice Storm My Son Does Not Come Home" featured on Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac, Thursday, April 16, 2009
Diane's poem "Idiosyncrasies of the Body" selected for the 2008 Best of the Net anthology
Diane's poem "Linguini" featured on Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac on Friday, February 20, 2009
Diane's poem "Seventh-Grade Science Project" featured at Poetry Daily on August 1, 2008
Diane Lockward is the author of What Feeds Us, (Wind Publications, 2006). The collection received the Quentin R. Howard Poetry Prize. Diane is also the author of two previous collections, Eve’s Red Dress (Wind Publications, 2003) and a chapbook, Against Perfection (Poets Forum Press, 1998). Her poems have been published in several anthologies, including Poetry Daily: 366 Poems from the World’s Most Popular Poetry Website and Garrison Keillor's Good Poems for Hard Times. Her poems have also appeared in such journals as Beloit Poetry Journal,
Spoon River Poetry Review, Harvard Review, Poet Lore, and Prairie Schooner.
Diane is the recipient of a 2003 Poetry Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and has received awards from North American Review, Louisiana Literature, the Newburyport Art Association, and the St. Louis Poetry Center. 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 conducts writing workshops for young and old poets, inexperienced and experienced poets. She also conducts workshops for teachers on how to teach poetry. She was a featured poet at the 2005 Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching and a workshop presenter at the New Jersey State Council of Teachers of English Conference in both 2003 and 2006.
Diane has also been a featured poet at a number of festivals, such as the Warren County Poetry Festival, the Inkberry Festival, the Long Branch Poetry Festival, the Walt Whitman Poetry Festival, the 2006 Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, and the 2007 Burlington Book Festival.
A former high school English teacher, Diane now works as a poet-in-the-schools for both the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation.
On May 17, 2009, Diane was appointed Poet Laureate of West Caldwell, NJ.
