Diamond Forde's debut collection, Mother Body, is the winner of the 2019 Saturnalia Poetry Prize. Forde has received numerous awards and prizes, including a Pink Poetry Prize, a Furious Flower Poetry Prize, and is finalist for the 2022 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, Claremont Graduate University. A Callaloo fellow, Tin House fellow, and finalist for Ruth Lilly Dorothy Sargeant fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, Forde's work has appeared in Boston Review, Honey Literary, Obsidian, Massachusetts Review, and more. She serves as the fiction editor of Nat. Brut, and she lives in Asheville with her partner and their dog, Oatmeal.

Other poems by Diamond Forde in Verse Daily:
September 5, 2022:   "Aubade" "I have made book of your body, read..."
July 15, 2021:   "The Last Time You Are Close to Your Body" "you are at the table where family dinners have to happen...."

Other poems on the web by Diamond Forde:
"Rememory"
Three poems
Two poems
Two poems
"my ex-boyfriend is a dick joke"
Three poems
"My Mother Gave Me a Coin Jesus and I Am Still Alive"
"Fat Fuck"
Three poems
Three poems

Diamond Forde's Website.

Diamond Forde on Twitter.

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Other poems by Birmingham Poetry Review in Verse Daily:
November 2, 2019:   "Dog Medicine" by Matt Dennison
November 1, 2019:   "Graveyard Ghazal" by Alison Stone
October 31, 2019:   "Midnight in the Backyard of Lust and Longing" by Alexis Rhone Fancher
January 7, 2005:  "Even the Trees in the Lake are Burning" by Muriel Zeller

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