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Dancing with Mary Shelley and Henry James A Cleave Suite by Diana Manister
Cleave poem: © 2008 Diana Manister
Diana Manister is New York City poet who has performed her poetry live at such various
venues as the late lamented punk rock club CBGBs, famed St. Mark’s Church Poetry Project,
The Living Theater and at Carnegie Hall where she was a winner in the Lyric Recovery Festival.
A Contributing Editor of the ezine BigCityLit.com, 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.
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