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| Contact Diane at: diane.guanieri@yahoo.com OR diane.sahms.guarnieri@gmail.com | |||||||||||||||
| 2024 - HOT OFF THE PRESS: Four New Book Reviews of Blues, Prayers, & Pagan Chants | |||||||||||||||
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| June 17, 2024 by Jerome Berglund in Fevers of the Mind. Click Review here | |||||||||||||||
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| Feb. 19, 2024 by Charles Rammelkamp in London Grip Poetry Review. Click Review here | |||||||||||||||
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| March 13, 2024 by Dennis Daly in Boston Small Area Press and Poetry Scene. Click Review here | |||||||||||||||
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| April 2024 by Neil Leadbeater in Quill and Parchment. Click Review here | |||||||||||||||
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| Philly Loves Poetry Episode Info: 76 - 12 September 2023 Moonstone Arts presents poetry and discussion with Host Charles S. Carr and Diane Sahms Click Interview here | |||||||||||||||
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| Diane Sahms (formerly Sahms-Guarnieri) is a native Philadelphian, having grown up in Roxborough & Manayunk (Northwest); lived a short time in South Philly; and has spent the majority of her life living in Lawndale (Northeast). 1. She has authored eight works of published poetry: six full-length collections and two chapbooks. See Books tab on her HOME PAGE for titles and links to all books / chapbooks, for Book Reviews, and for What others say about these books. 2. A list of acknowledgments of her published online and/or print poems are listed below under Publications. Online links for some of her published poems can be found at the Poems tab on her HOME PAGE. PUBLICATIONS, print &/or online | Poems North American Review - University of Iowa; Brushfire Literature & Arts Journal - University of Nevada; Chiron Review; Sequestrum Journal of Literature & Arts - Iowa; Valley Voices: A Literary Review - University of Mississippi. The New Verse News; The Philadelphia Inquirer;Pennsylvania Literary Journal; Folio; The Fox Chase Review; Many Mountains Moving - Colorado; Philadelphia Stories; Indiana Voice Journal; Mid-West Cultural Council; The Mad Poets Review; Limited Editions - CCP; The Camel Saloon; The Northern Liberties Review; The Mascara Review; Dead Snakes; Blast Furnace; Oddball Magazine - Boston, MA; RiverLit - Spokane, WA; The Levittown Leader; Blue Collar Review - Norfolk, VA; Plum Tree Tavern; Autumn Sky Poetry;Wilderness House Literary Review - Boston, MA; Eleventh Transmission - Canada; 34th Parallel Magazine - Paris; The A3 Review - UK; The Southern Ocean Review; The Blue Heron Review; Canary; The Ibis Head Review; JONAH Magazine;Picking Up Glitter; The Write Launch; The Moving Force; Coffin Bell; Coronavirus Chronicles; Yellow Mama Magazine; Eclectica Magazine-Runner Up Prize; The Northern Virginia Review Tiny Seed Literary Journal, Pollinator Project; Nine Cloud Journal; The New Purlieu Review;The Pangolin Review - UK; Poetry and Covid - UK, University of Plymouth and Nottingham Trent University; The Stray Branch; Poetry X Hunger; Passager Pandemic Diaries; POEMS-FOR-ALL; Partisan Press - Winner of Working People's Poetry Competition for "Absence;" The Green Shoe Sanctuary; Home Planet News; Alien Buddha Zine No. 50 & Tiny Seed Literary Journal, Wildflower Project; Arlington Literary Journal; Viewless Wings; addanomadd & Grey Sparrow. Poems are forthcoming in Autumn from University of Mississippi's Valley Voices. Anthologies Poems forthcoming from Wingless Dreamer Press: Echoes of T.S. Eliot. Tiny Seed Literary Journal's Poetry of the Wildflowers Anthology, 2023 Alien Buddha Press: The Alien Buddha Gets a REAL Job Anthology, 2023. Moonstone Press. HOPE 2022 & 2021 Featured Anthology. Train River Anthology. Wingless Dreamer Press. Fruits of Our Quarantine, an anthology written during COVID-19. Transcendent Zero Press. Selfhood: Varieties of Experience-an anthology for the faint of heart. Philadelphia Stories Inc. The Best of Philadelphia Stories. Moonstone Press. Poetry Ink & Philadelphia Says Women Are Voting. Genre:Urban Arts Press. Genre: Urban Arts No. 9: Urban Arts Signature. 3. She has performed her poetry at venues along the east coast of the United States from Boston, Massachusetts to Richmond, Virginia and west to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. See the Reading Schedule tab on her HOME PAGE. Below are links to Diane's Interviews INTERVIEWS | 2023, Television Interview, Philly Loves Poetry Moonstone Arts presents poetry and discussion with Host Charles S. Carr and Diane Sahms 2023, Featured Artist Interview Alien Buddha Press 2023, Interview by Tom Waring Spreading the love of poetry Northeast Times 2020, Interview by Megan Milligan Poet captures the essence of 2020 in new book Northeast Times 2019, Contributor Spotlight Sequestrum Journal of Literature & Art 2018, Television Interview YouTube Conducted by Marilyn Klimcho on the Poets' Pause program broadcast on BCTV. 2020, Interview by Logan Krum Finding truth through poetry Northeast Times 2018, Featured Author The Blue Heron Speaks 2016, Interview by Lynn Fanok The Interview Room 2013, Interview by The Fox Chase Review: Ten Questions The Fox Chase Review
4. Like poets Whitman, Stevens & Williams before her, she too, has been fated to write poetry while working a full-time job. | Somehow, she has found the time over the decades to volunteer in her community by spreading the art of poetry in the Philadelphia area. See Education/Work Experience & Community (Volunteer) Service below. She is currently the Poetry Editor at North of Oxford EDUCATION/WORK EXPERIENCE | Diane is a graduate of East Stroudsburg University (B.S.) GPA 3.57. From 1982-86 she worked as a Contract Specialist. In the late 80s, into the late 90s she was a stay at home mom with her three children. In 1999, she enrolled in graduate work at Holy Family University (HFU) GPA 4.0, which led to an English Secondary Education Teaching Certification. While completing post-graduate work at HFU, she also attended & completed courses at Community College of Philadelphia (CCP) GPA 4.0, while substitute teaching for the Philadelphia School District. Once certified she taught high school English/Poetry at Council Rock (North & South) & at Cheltenham High Schools. From March 2008-2016, she worked as a Contract Specialist (pre & post-award & contract closeouts). In 2016-present, she works as a Purchasing Agent. COMMUNITY (Volunteer) SERVICE, Philadelphia | Poetry Editor Diane is currently Poetry Editor of North of Oxford (2016 - presently). & currently in 2023 cohosts Second Wednesdays' Reading Series & open mic at the Northeast Regional Library. She has served as Poetry Editor of The Fox Chase Review (2009-15); served on the Editorial Board of the Philadelphia Stories magazine (2006-08); and served as Student Editor for Limited Editions at Community College of Philadelphia (2000-03) & Folio at Holy Family University (2000). Cohost, Host, Assistant & Other Cohosted The Fox Chase Reading Series at Three Sisters Corner Cafe (2008-11) and at Ryerss Museum and Library (2011-15); Hosted The Fox Chase Reading Series 2nd Tuesdays Poetry Open Mic (2009-11); Hosted Poets at Pennypack at Pennypack Environmental & Nature Center (2014); Hosted Poets in the Park at Lions Park (2010, 2011, & 2014); Hosted The Center City Poets Workshop at the former Borders Bookstore (2006-11); Assisted with Poets on the Porch (2010-15); Created, published, and distributed "the broadside series" (2013-15). Poet in Residence Served as Poet in Residence at Ryerss Museum & Library (2013-15). Workshop Leader Delaware & Pennsylvania:Tenth Muse Poetry Workshop Leader (2012-15).
5. Lastly, Diane has received several awards for her poetry as listed below and she has written several book reviews, | which a sampling of their titles with their respective links are also listed below. If interested, on the HOME PAGE check out her YOUTUBE tab & her Workshop and Poet-in-Residence tabs, which contains information about her past leadership commitments as both Workshop Leader and Poet-in-Residence. AWARDS | Partisan Press Winner of the Working People's Poetry Competition for poem, Absence, 2015. Recipient of Commonwealth of Pennsylvania/The House of Representatives Citation, 2014. Community College of Philadelphia - Two Time Winner of Judith Stark's Poetry Competition. Philadelphia Writer's Conference - Second Place in the Poetry Competition for poem, Lily.  Pennsylvania State Citation: Awarded for over a decade of community volunteerism | in the promotion of the art of poetry in Philadelphia, July 2014. See article AEVentures Foundation Grant for Poetry, 2013.
|  SAMPLING OF BOOK REVIEWS | Poetry Book Reviews, written by Diane, a sampling Eternal Sentences by Michael McGriff The Damages of Morning by J.C. Todd A SORT OF ADAM INFANT DROPPED: TRUE MYTHS by Scott Yarbrough Amber Necklace from Gdansk by Linda Name-Foster Strike Sparks: Selected Poems, 1980-2002 by Sharon Olds The Niagara River by Kay Ryan LUMIA by Nick Admussen To read current book reviews of prose & poetry visit North of Oxford Listed at Poets & Writers
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