Ward, Diane, 1956-

Poet Diane Ward (November 9, 1956- ) was born in Washington, DC and attended the Corcoran School of Art. She was initially associated with the first wave of Language poetry in the 1970s. Ward lives in Santa Monica, California where she taught poetry in public schools to 1st through 5th graders for many years. Ward has published more than a dozen works of poetry and has been included in numerous anthologies, among them: Moving Borders and Out of Everywhere, along with selections published in The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry and From the Other Side of the Century. She has read widely in the United States, including the District of Columbia Arts Center, Small Press Traffic at New College (San Francisco), The Bowery Poetry Club and The Poetry Project of St. Mark’s Church.