Alabama Poet Diann Blakely
Mystery And Manners Honored Guest Alabama Poet Diann Blakely
7/16/08
Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Diann Blakely was educated at Sewanee, Vanderbilt, NYU and Vermont College. Her first poetry collection—Hurricane Walk—was named one of 1992’s ten best poetry books by the St. Louis Dispatch. A two-time Pushcart Winner, Blakely’s next book, Farewell, My Lovelies, was published in 2000.
Over the years, Blakely’s work has appeared in Denver Quarterly, Harvard Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, Shenandoah, Southern Humanities Review, Southern Review, Verse and Pushcart.
Blakely and her husband author Stanley Booth live near Savannah, Georgia. Blakely’s new book, Cities of Flesh and The Dead, will be published later this year. While still a work in progress, Cities of Flesh and The Dead won the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award. Blakely is also the co-editor of Each Fugitive Moment, a collection of essays on the late Lynda Hull.
Swampland/Mystery And Manners is honored to publish Blakley’s article on Kentucky writer Hunter S. Thompson. She’s one of the most cognizant individuals I’ve ever met…
James Calemine
JCalemine@swampland.com
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