Vol 4 No 1 2010
Diane Lockward is the author of What Feeds Us (Wind Publications, 2006) which was awarded the Quentin R. Howard Poetry Prize. She is also the author of 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 appeared in such journals as the Harvard Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, and Prairie Schooner, and have been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily and The Writer's Almanac. She is the recipient of a Poetry Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and is the current Poet Laureate of West Caldwell, New Jersey. A former high school English teacher, Diane now works as a poet-in-the-schools.