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Diann Blakely is the author of three books of poetry as well as an editor, essayist, and reviewer. She has taught at Belmont University, Harvard University, Vanderbilt University, Watkins Arts Institute, and served as senior instructor and poet-in-residence at the Harpeth Hall School in Nashville, Tennessee. A Robert Frost Fellow at Bread Loaf, she was a Dakin Williams Fellow at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Blakely has been anthologized in numerous volumes, including Best American Poetry 2003 and Pushcart Prize Anthologies XIX and XX. A few of her other distinctions include having her first collection, Hurricane Walk, listed among the year's ten best by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch; her second book, Farewell, My Lovelies, named a Choice of the Academy of American Poets’ Book Society; and her third collection, Cities of Flesh and the Dead, won the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America while still a manuscript-in-progress, then the 7th Annual Publication Prize from Elixir Press. A poetry editor of Antioch Review for a dozen years, Blakely continues work on Each Fugitive Moment: Creative and Critical Responses to the Life and Work of Lynda Hull, and in February, 2012, she will begin compiling an anthology, Belles Gone Bad: From Bourbon Street and Beyond, Before, During, and After Katrina, with Nordette A. Adams, Grace Bauer, Julie Kane, Anne Delana Reeves, and Mona Lisa Saloy. While completing her fourth maunscript of poems, Rain in Our Door: Duets with Robert Johnson, Blakely contributes reviews of poetry and other arts to Antioch, BookPage, Chapter 16: Tennessee Humanities Council Online, Harvard Review, Nashville Scene / Village Voice Media, as well as pursuing a year-and-a-half-long collaborative project--with at least three dozen other poets, essayists, photographers, film-makers, and fiction writers--on Southern poetry and its necessarily entangled themes of music and race. She lives south of Savannah with her husband, the author and music writer Stanley Booth.

Anthologies: Best American Poets 2003, ed. Yusef Koumunyakaa (http://books.simonandschuster.com/Best-American-Poetry-2003/Yusef-Komunyakaa/9780743203883); Homewords, ed. Douglas Paschal (University of Tennessee Press, 1986); The Movies: Texts, Receptions, Exposures, ed. Laurence Goldstein and Ira Konigsberg (University of Michigan Press, 1997); Lights, Camera, Poetry!: American Movie Poems, The First Hundred Years, ed. Jason Shinder (Mariner Books, 1996); Orpheus and Company: Contemporary Poems on Greek Mythology, ed. Deborah DeNicola (UPNE, 1999) ; Pushcart Prize Anthologies XIX and XX, eds. David St. John and Carol Muske, (Pushcart Press, 1996 and 1997); Whatever Remembers Us: An Anthology of Alabama Poetry, ed. Sue Brannan Walker, J. William Chambers, Megan Cary, Jason Walker (Negative Capability Press, 2007).

Books: Cities of Flesh and the Dead, Elixir Press, 2008 Farewell, My Lovelies, Story Line Press, 2000 Hurricane Walk, BOA Editions, Ltd., 1992

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