Joanne Diaz is the recipient of fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her book The Lessons won the Gerald Cable First Book Award and was published in 2011 by Silverfish Review Press. She teaches in the English Department at Illinois Wesleyan University.
The American Poetry Review is dedicated to reaching a worldwide audience with a diverse array of the best contemporary poetry and literary prose. APR also aims to expand the audience interested in poetry and literature, and to provide authors, especially poets, with a far-reaching forum in which to present their work.
APR has continued uninterrupted publication of The American Poetry Review since 1972, and has included the work of over 1,500 writers, among whom there are nine Nobel Prize laureates and thirty-three Pulitzer Prize winners.
American Poetry ReviewNovember / December 2012
