Diann Blakely (June 1, 1957 – August 5, 2014) was an American poet, essayist, editor, and critic.
[2] Subsequently, the St. Louis Post Dispatch named it as one of the ten best verse collections published that year.
[4] Her third volume, Cities of Flesh and the Dead, won Elixir Press's 7th annual publication prize after being distinguished by the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, given for a year's best manuscript-in-progress.
[5][6] Anthologized in several volumes, including Best American Poetry 2003 and Pushcart Prize Anthologies XIX and XX,[2] Prior to her death, Blakely was working on two new manuscripts entitled Rain in Our Door: Duets with Robert Johnson and Lost Addresses: New and Selected Poems [1][2][3] Diann Blakely’s much anticipated Lost Addresses: New & Selected Poems was published by Salmon Poetry in February 2017.
Blakely was a former poetry editor at the Antioch Review and at New World Writing[7] and served on Plath Profiles' board.