Diane Ward

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Diane Ward (born November 9, 1956) is a U.S. poet initially associated with the first wave of Language poetry in the 1970s and has actively published into the 21st century, maintaining a presence in various artistic communities for many decades. Born in Washington, DC where she attended the Corcoran School of Art, Ward currently lives in Santa Monica, California [1] where she taught poetry in public schools to 1st through 5th graders for many years. [2]

Santa Monica, California City in California

Santa Monica is a beachfront city in western Los Angeles County, California, United States. Situated on Santa Monica Bay, it is bordered on three sides by the city of Los Angeles – Pacific Palisades to the north, Brentwood on the northeast, West Los Angeles on the east, Mar Vista on the southeast, and Venice on the south. The Census Bureau population for Santa Monica in 2010 was 89,736.

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Ward has published more than a dozen works of poetry and has been included in numerous anthologies, among them: Moving Borders and Out of Everywhere [1] along with selections published in The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry and From the Other Side of the Century. [3] She has read widely in the United States, including the District of Columbia Arts Center, Small Press Traffic at New College (San Francisco), The Bowery Poetry Club and The Poetry Project of St. Mark’s Church. Ward's work has appeared in dozens of small press publications, including: Crayon, Conjunctions , The Paris Review, Sulfur, and Raddle Moon. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "LA-Lit 8: Diane Ward". LA-Lit. 2006-02-05. Retrieved 2011-06-18.
  2. ↑ Silliman, Ron (2002). In The American Tree (revised ed.). Orono, Maine: The National Poetry Foundation. p. 606. ISBN   0-943373-51-4.
  3. ↑ "Doug Lang and Diane Ward at the "In Your Ear" reading series @ District of Columbia Arts Center". Dcpoetry.com. Retrieved 2011-06-18.
  4. ↑ this is a collaboration with installation artist Michael McMillen and contains Ward's poems in the original English as well as in Italian translation by Manuela Bruschini. McMillen's artwork is also featured
  5. ↑ This work is a collaboration in two parts: "In Conversation" (the text of a dialogue between Jane Sprague, Tina Darragh, and Diane Ward) followed by hybrid (ie., mixed genre/poetry/prose) texts. The second collaborative section begins with an untitled poem ("how you'll know me") followed by "WHAT IS THE MATTER?", and "s[oa]pitting dignity". This volume concludes with "Notes for 's[oa]pitting dignity'" and a bibliography. It also contains two photographs by Ward, including the jacket cover, of the Los Angeles River
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