Diana Manister is New York City poet who has featured at such various venues as the late lamented punk rock club CBGBs, St. Mark’s Church Poetry Project, the Living Theater, Bowery Poetry Club and Carnegie Hall as well as colleges and universities. A Contributing Editor of Big City Lit, she is also an elected member of the American Branch of the International Critics Association (AICA). Her poetry reviews appear regularly in The Modern Review and online at BigCityLit, about.com, small press exchange and artezine. Her poems have been published in print and web publications including PoetryRevolt, Autumn Sky, Salonika, Big Bridge, Waterworks and others, and anthologized in Distance From the Tree and The Company We Keep from Headwaters Press, Compilations 1, The Best Online Poetry of 2008 from Poetry Blog Listings and The Cleave Anthology 2008/9 from Wordpress.

The Company We Keep (Poet Warrior Productions, 2003), Distance From the Tree (Headwaters Press, 2002), The Carnegie Program (Philophonema, 2000)

Autumn Sky Poetry, Big Bridge, nycBigCityLit.com, Pagan Place, Poets Against the War, Salonika Quarterly, The Cleave, The New Post-Literate