Diane Lockward is the author of The Crafty Poet: A Portable Workshop and four poetry books, most recently The Uneaten Carrots of Atonement. Her previous books are Temptation by Water, What Feeds Us which received the 2006 Quentin R. Howard Poetry Prize, and Eve”s Red Dress. Her poems have been included in such journals as Harvard Review, Southern Poetry Review, and Prairie Schooner. Her work has also been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and The Writer”s Almanac.
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Diane Lockward: The Uneaten Carrots of Atonement
Diane Lockward, more than any other poet now writing, exemplifies Garcia Lorca’s definition of poet as the professor of the five bodily senses. She revels in sensory language, often lip-smackin …
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Diane Lockward: The Doll Collection
Why do dolls compel us so much? What are their meanings? What lessons do they have to teach us? The Doll Collection explores these questions. This wonderful anthology of poems asks us to rethink doll …
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Diane Lockward: The Crafty Poet II: A Portable Workshop
The Crafty Poet II is organized into ten sections, beginning with ’Revising Your Process.’ That section is followed by one on ’Entryways into Poems’ which considers how a poet might get going with a …
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Diane Lockward: The Book of Donuts
Editors Jason Lee Brown and Shanie Latham selected fifty-four poems by fifty-one poets, happily including Denise Duhamel, Jack Bedell, Mira Rosenthal, Martha Silano, Julian Stannard, Charles Harper W …
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Michelle Menting: Leaves Surface Like Skin
In Leaves Surface Like Skin, Michelle Menting articulates gorgeous, strange visions of nature inflected by human interference. A forest is interrupted by a graveyard of Bob’s Big Boy statuettes; …
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Karen Paul Holmes: No Such Thing as Distance
What marvelous poems these are, and how complete a collection. Like a circus aerialist who makes us gasp one moment and laugh the next, the poet takes us from her immigrant father’s Macedonian roots …
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Diane Lockward: The Crafty Poet: A Portable Workshop
The Crafty Poet: A Portable Workshop is a poetry tutorial designed to inform and inspire poets. It includes model poems and prompts, writing tips, and interviews with poets. Organized into ten …
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Geraldine Connolly: Aileron
Open this book at random and find a trove of thrilling images and unexpected metaphors: tiny bells jingling like sins, “a cool lake of indifference, ” “an impossible wheel of hunger.” Read this book …
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Michael T. Young: The Infinite Doctrine of Water
The gorgeous poems of Michael T. Young’s The Infinite Doctrine of Water offer the rewards of deep reflection. The poet’s sharp eye and attentive ear capture the delicate light and shadow of urban lif …
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Paige Riehl: Suspension
Suspension is that rare book of poetry, as much a narrative as a collection of individually successful lyrics. We follow here the extraordinary events of a life and the visions of the one/the ma …
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Lisa Bellamy: The Northway
This hilarious, imaginative book packs cigarette butts, Buddhist prayer flags, a spastic colon, Leviathan jaws, and gnats reincarnating as neonatal nurses into just one poem. Others say “Yes, to grun …
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Diane Lockward: The Practicing Poet
Organized into ten sections with each devoted to a poetic concept, The Practicing Poet begins with ’Discovering New Material, ’ ’Finding the Best Words, ’ ’Making Music, ’ ’Working with Sentences and …
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Diane Lockward: Eve’s Red Dress
’Cognizant of loss but always celebratory, Lockward’s poems are irreverent, ravenous for the world, and unabashedly female. When. ’In Losing the Blues, ’ she writes, ’I could burn / the hands off a m …
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Diane Lockward: What Feeds Us
In these sparkling poems, Diane Lockward takes life as it comes and finds nourishment in it all: succulence of the peach, redolence of the pear, the ’green grape of sorrow.’ I love these poems for th …
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Ann Fisher-Wirth: The Bones of Winter Birds
Like “sunlight stroking the birds’ throats so it comes out as song, ” Ann Fisher-Wirth’s graceful and sturdy lines unsettle the seemingly familiar. A writer of moral gravity, her distilled attentiven …
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Gary J. Whitehead: Strange What Rises
Departing from the more whimsical tone of A Glossary of Chickens, Whitehead’s last book, this new collection explores, among other subjects, childlessness in middle age, the vicissitudes o …
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Sarah Wetzel: The Davids Inside David
Sarah Wetzel’s vulnerable and intimate lyrical gestures inhabit the delicate space between this world and the world to come, between one century, one moment, and the next. Their verbs gather ghostly …
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Diane Lockward: A Constellation of Kisses
A kiss is never just a kiss—heat-seeking, information bearing, coded. In this inspired collection, poet and editor Diane Lockward has assembled over 100 poems about kisses written by many of our best …
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David Graham: The Honey of Earth
How can I—or anyone—not adore David Graham’s new collection? The tone throughout is hospitable, wry, and affirming even while acknowledging that loss and suffering are ever present. The honey of eart …
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Kory Wells: Sugar Fix
The subjects of poetry are the same: love and loss, sex and death and grief, family in all its permutations and complications. The differences are in the telling, and Kory Wells is a powerful teller. …
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Patricia Clark: Self-Portrait with a Million Dollars
Patricia Clark’s poems immerse the reader in the living world through the quality of her attention and appreciation. There’s hard-won intelligence here. We see it in people sharing a meal and being …
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Yvonne Zipter: Kissing the Long Face of the Greyhound
If you’ve been combing the bookshops for a new collection of poetry that’s likely to stimulate the intellect, fine-tune the senses, and simultaneously break the heart, Kissing the Long Face of the …
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Dion O’Reilly: Ghost Dogs
Ghost Dogs, Dion O’Reilly’s fine first poetry collection, will haunt you the way art should. Bristling with pain, wit, desire, and tenderness, these poems investigate not only ’the daily harms’ of an …
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Diane Lockward: The Strategic Poet
The Strategic Poet: Honing the Craft focuses on the craft of poetry and is based on the belief that craft can be taught and the best teacher of craft is a good poem. This book assumes a knowledgeable …
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Hayden Saunier: A Cartography of Home
’Mad fury all around’-somehow the right words about life make it easier to get on with it. These poems do exactly that, catching us out in the most adroit, surprising ways: by sheer skill, self-aware …
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Robin Rosen Chang: The Curator’s Notes
A gorgeously deft book, The Curator’s Notes dares to question the Edenic. It asks, why not take the knowledge at hand hanging like ’plump, purple orbs…begging to be eaten…’? And what c …
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Meghan Sterling: These Few Seeds
Throughout this splendid book, grounded in the intimate joys and trepidations of new motherhood, there is an undercurrent of foreboding about the kind of world we are bequeathing to our children-a wo …
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