Diane Ward

Ward's work has appeared in dozens of small press publications, including: Crayon, Conjunctions, The Paris Review, Sulfur, and Raddle Moon. Ward has received considerable recognition for her work including the California Arts Council Artists Fellowship in Literature, a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, and the San Francisco State University Poetry Center’s Book of the Year Award. Several of her poems (including “Fade on Family”) have been set to music by the Los Angeles composer Michael Webster and she has collaborated with the avant-garde sound performer and musician, Emily Hay.

• On Duke Ellington’s Birthday (Washington, D.C.: self-published) • Trop-i-dom (Washington, D.C.: Jawbone, 1977) • The Light American (Washington, D.C.: Jawbone, 1979) • Theory of Emotion (New York: Segue/O Press, 1979) • Never without One (New York: Roof, 1984) • Relation (New York: Roof, 1989) • Human Ceiling (New York: Roof, 1995) • Imaginary Movie (Elmwood, Connecticut: Potes & Poets Press, 1992) • Exhibition (Elmwood, Connecticut: Potes & Poets Press, 1995) • (contributor) Out of Everywhere: linguistically innovative poetry by women in North America & the UK, edited by Maggie O’Sullivan (London: Reality Street Editions, 1996) • (contributor) Moving Borders: Three Decades of Innovative Writing by Women, edited by Mary Margaret Sloan (New Jersey: Talisman House, Publishers, 1998) • Portraits and Maps (with art by Michael C. McMillen) (Piacenza, Italy: ML&NLF, 2000) • Portrait As If Through My Own Voice (Studio City, California: Margin to Margin, 2001) • When You Awake (New York: Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs) • Flim-Yoked Scrim (San Diego: Factory School, 2006) • No List (No List) (Seeing Eye Books, 2008) • Belladonna Elders Series No. 8: Jane Sprague / Tina Darragh / Diane Ward (Belladonna, 2009) • Further Reading • "Ward on Seaton", L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, Volume 3, Number 13 [December 1980] This is a review by Ward of Peter Seaton's "Piranesi Pointed Up". The review can be accessed online here • Silliman, Ron (editor). In the American Tree. Orono, Maine: National Poetry Foundation, 1986; reprint ed. with a new afterword, 2002. This groundbreaking anthology of language poetry serves as a very useful primer and includes Ward's poem "Pronouncing"