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Diana Manister

Author's Bio

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.

Publications and Prizes

Anthologies:
The Company We Keep (Poet Warrior Productions, 2003), Distance From the Tree (Headwaters Press, 2002), The Carnegie Program (Philophonema, 2000)
Journals:
Autumn Sky Poetry, Big Bridge, nycBigCityLit.com, Pagan Place, Poets Against the War, Salonika Quarterly, The Cleave, The New Post-Literate
Prizes:
Lyric Recovery Festival Winner 2000

Personal Favorites

What I'm Reading Now:
The Space of Literature by Maurice Blanchot, The Right to Dream by Gaston Bachelard, The End of the Poem by Giorgio Agamben, Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
Favorite Books:
The Space of Literature, Death Sentence, The One Who Was Standing Apart From Me, Writing the Disaster, all of Helene Cixous.
Favorite Authors:
Blanchot, Agamben, Bachelard, Charles Bernstein, Ron Silliman, Helene Cixous

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Listing last updated: November 24, 2009

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