Monday Must Read! Diane Lockward, The Crafty Poet, and Temptation by Water

This week, meet Diane Lockward, author of The Crafty Poet: A Portable Workshop (Wind Publications, 2013) and three poetry books, most recently Temptation by Water. Her previous books are What Feeds Us, which received the 2006 Quentin R. Howard Poetry Prize, and Eve’s Red Dress. A new poetry collection, The Uneaten Carrots of Atonement, is scheduled for publication in 2015. She is also the author of two chapbooks, Against Perfection and Greatest Hits: 1997-2010. Her poems have been included in such anthologies as Poetry Daily: 360 Poems from the World’s Most Popular Poetry Website and Garrison Keillor’s Good Poems for Hard Times, and in such journals as Harvard Review, Southern Poetry Review, and Prairie Schooner. Her work has also been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, Gwarlingo, and The Writer’s Almanac. She is the Poet Laureate of West Caldwell, New Jersey, where she runs two annual poetry events: The West Caldwell Poetry Festival and Girl Talk. She publishes a free monthly e-mail Poetry Newsletter and is happy to have new subscribers.

She blogs at Blogalicious, http://www.dianelockward.blogspot, and keeps a website at www.dianelockward.com.

Crafty Link to Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Crafty-Poet-Portable-Workshop/dp/193613862X%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAJBDF5XQBATGDX4VQ%26tag%3Dspea06-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D193613862X

For information about The Crafty Poet: A Portable Workshop

http://www.dianelockward.blogspot.com/p/the-crafty-poet-portable-workshop.html

Description: The Crafty Poet: A Portable Workshop is a poetry tutorial to inform and inspire poets. It contains model poems with prompts, writing tips, and interviews contributed by fifty-six poets, including thirteen former and current state Poets Laureate. An additional forty-five poets contributed sample poems. Geared for experienced poets and aspiring poets, this book is ideal for individual use at home or group use in the classroom or workshop.

Review by Lynn Domina

http://lynndomina.com/?p=162

Review by Christine Veladota

http://maybesopoetry.com/2014/12/20/the-crafty-poet-a-portable-workshop-by-diane-lockward/

Comments from readers:

I LOVE the poet interviews sprinkled in with the craft tips. These alone are worth the price of the book. I highly, highly recommend it to any poet writing today. It brings forth much fruit! Do go and secure a copy immediately. (C.A. LaRue)

Here is a must for teachers of poetry. . . a feast of poems and instructions. (Grace Cavalieri)

Sample Bonus Prompt

http://adelekenny.blogspot.com/2013/10/prompt-166-word-chain-poem-by-guest.html

Sample Prompt with model poem

http://adelekenny.blogspot.com/2014/11/prompt-210-loveliness-of-words-by-guest.html

Happy Reading—and Writing!

xo

Mary