Diann Blakely

Diann Blakely (June 1, 1957 – August 5, 2014) was an American poet, essayist, editor, and critic. Blakely graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in art history from the University of the South in 1979, Subsequently, the St. Louis Post Dispatch named it as one of the ten best verse collections published that year. 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. Anthologized in several volumes, including Best American Poetry 2003 and Pushcart Prize Anthologies XIX and XX, and served on Plath Profiles''' board. She contributed essays, poetry, and reviews to that journal and to many other publication, including the Harvard Review, Nashville Scene, Village Voice Media, Pleiades, and Smartish Pace.

Blakely died in Brunswick, GA, on August 5, 2014 after complications from a chronic lung disorder. She was 57. Lost Addresses: New & Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry, 2017) Cities of Flesh and the Dead (Elixir Press, 2008) Farewell, My Lovelies (Story Line Press, 2000) Hurricane Walk (BOA Editions, Ltd., 1992)

Poems "Walking Blues: Duet with Robert Johnson #31" at Harvard Review "Two Poems" at Bomb Magazine "The Storm," "Reunion Banquet, Class of '79," and "Chorale" at Levure Littéraire "Magi" and "Georgia Pilgrimage" at The Enchanting Verses Literary Review "Antonioni’s blow-up" at Dublin Poetry Review "Santa Ana," "Charlotte Brontë's Gloves," and "Another Art" at Mezzo Cammin "The Story of Their Lives" at New World Writing "92 Johnson Avenue, 1985" and "Two Poems" at Plath Profiles "Ten Poems" at storySouth "Afterwords (IM William Matthews)" at The Best American Poetry "Bad Blood" at Verse Daily "Dead Shrimp Blues" at The Chronicle of Higher Education "Before the Flood: A Solo From New Orleans" at Chapter 16

Anthologies Whatever Remembers Us: An Anthology of Alabama Poetry (Negative Capability Press, 2007) Best American Poets 2003 (Scribner, 2003) Orpheus and Company: Contemporary Poems on Greek Mythology (UPNE, 1999) The Movies: Texts, Receptions, Exposures (University of Michigan Press, 1997) Pushcart Prize Anthologies XIX and XX (Pushcart Press, 1996 and 1997) Lights, Camera, Poetry!: American Movie Poems, The First Hundred Years (Mariner Books, 1996) Homewords (University of Tennessee Press, 1986)

Reviews and essays Harvard Review Intruder by Jill Bialosky

The Best American Poetry The New Black Ave Atque Vale: William Matthews by Diann Blakely

New World Writing She Do the Police In Different Voices The Zanesville Bear Cub & the Puritan Tradition

Nashville Scene Excitable Boys: This year's best books for music lovers

Plath Profiles Heptonstall Cemetery: A Memoir, A Tribute, A Defense, and A Eulogy Review of Heather Clark's The Grief of Influence: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes Bee-Stung in October

Poets.org Women of the New Gen: Refashioning Poetry

Smartish Pace Jonathan Galassi: Left-Handed; John FitzGerald: The Mind; David St. John: The Auroras

Swampland In the Sanctuary of Outcasts: A Memoir