Diann Blakely

Diann Blakely (born 1957 in Anniston, Alabama) is an American poet, essayist, and reviewer.[1][2] Graduating with a B.A. in art history from the University of the South in 1979,[2] she subsequently received an M.A. in literature from Vanderbilt University in 1980 and an M.F.A. from Vermont College in 1989.[2] She has taught at Belmont University, Harvard University, Vanderbilt University, and served as senior instructor and the first poet-in-residence at the Harpeth Hall School in Nashville, Tennessee.[2] A Robert Frost Fellow at Bread Loaf, she was a Dakin Williams Fellow at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.[2]

Her first volume of poetry, Hurricane Walk, was published under the name Diann Blakely Shoaf in 1992[2] and included among the St. Louis Post Dispatch's ten best verse collections of the year.[1] Her second book, Farewell, My Lovelies, published in 2000 and influenced by "noir" shading, was listed as a Choice of the Academy of American Poets' Book Club.[3] Her third volume, Cities of Flesh and the Dead, won Elixir Press's 7th annual publication prize after being distinguished by the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, given for a year's best manuscript-in-progress.[4][5] Anthologized in several volumes, including Best American Poetry 2003 and Pushcart Prize Anthologies XIX and XX,[2] Blakely is currently at work on a new manuscript entitled Rain in Our Door: Duets with Robert Johnson.[1][2]

A former poetry editor at the Antioch Review, Blakely has recently contributed reviews to that journal as well as BookPage, Chapter 16: Tennessee Humanities Online, Harvard Review, Nashville Scene / Village Voice Media, Option, and Swampland.[2] She lives south of Savannah, Georgia, with her husband, the author and music writer Stanley Booth.[6]

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Awards

Selected Publications

Poems

Anthologies

Reviews and essays

Option Magazine
Swampland
Nashville Scene

References

  1. ^ a b c Komunyakaa, Yusef (2003). The Best American Poetry 2003 : Series Editor David Lehman. New York: Scribner. pp. 193–4. ISBN 0-7432-0388-7. http://books.google.ca/books?id=2q9oWkyMh54C&pg=PA193. 
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Diann Blakely (b. 1957)". utc.edu. 2010 [last update]. http://www.utc.edu/Academic/TennesseeWriters/authors/blakely.diann.html. Retrieved May 7, 2011. 
  3. ^ Lehman, David (2000). The perfect murder: a study in detection. Ann Arbor, Mich: University of Michigan Press. pp. 222. ISBN 0-472-08585-9. http://books.google.ca/books?id=lZbF_5nxR0MC&pg=PA222. 
  4. ^ Emma Bolden Cities of Flesh and the Dead, Poets' Quarterly, Issue 2 - Winter 2010)
  5. ^ Pablo Tanguay 'Facing the Black-Winged Angel', Nashville Scene October 02, 2008
  6. ^ Daphne Carr; Marcus, Greil (2009). Best Music Writing 2009 (Da Capo Best Music Writing). New York: Da Capo Press. p. 273. ISBN 0-306-81782-9. http://books.google.ca/books?id=qZjaM3u5F6wC&pg=PA273. 

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