writer / editor / watercolorist

Dan Vera

A lovely and moving video of my poem, "The Borders Are Fluid Within Us" created by an international group of Aspen Fellows from the Aspen Institute.

12/14/24
Reading with
Natalie Illum & Miller Oberman
@ the American Poetry Museum

12/10/24
My poem, "Emily Dickinson at the Poetry Slam" was chosen as the Poetry Foundation's Poem of the Day on Emily Dickinson's birthday!

12/01/24 "Instructions Upon Arrival" in the December 2024 Issue of Poetry magazine!

Dan Vera is a writer, editor, watercolorist, and literary historian. Recipient of the Oscar Wilde Award for Poetry and the Letras Latinas/Red Hen Poetry Prize, he’s the co-editor of Imaniman: Poets Writing In The Anzaldúan Borderlands (Aunt Lute Books) and author of two books of poetry, Speaking Wiri Wiri (Red Hen Press) and The Space Between Our Danger and Delight (Beothuk Books).
His work is featured by the Poetry Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts and included in college and university curricula, various journals including Poetry, Notre Dame Review, Poet Lore, and Beltway Poetry Quarterly; and in anthologies including Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology (LOA #382), Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology, The Traveler’s Vade Mecum, and The Queer South: LGBTQ Writers on the American South.
A CantoMundo and Macondo Writing Fellow, he's been a featured reader around the country including the Dodge Poetry Festival, The Poetry Foundation in Chicago, The Library of Congress and Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, and New York City’s Bryant Park and Poets House reading series. The longtime chair of Split This Rock Poetry, he's also served on the board of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) and Rainbow History.

LATEST NEWS

12/10/24
Delighted to discover my poem, "Emily Dickinson at the Poetry Slam" was chosen as Poetry Foundation's "Poem of the Day" on Emily Dickinson's birthday! This poem appeared in my first book The Space Between Our Danger And Delight.

12/01/24
Grateful that a new poem of mine, "Instructions Upon Arrival", appears in the December issue of Poetry magazine as part of a portfolio celebrating Letras Latinas' 20th Anniversary! Thanks to Francisco Aragon and Laura Esquivel for choosing to include my poem and to the editors for their work on this issue!

11/12/24
I had a wonderful time reading at the Folger Shakespeare Theater with Valerie Martinez and Blas Falconer in celebration of Letras Latinas' 20th Anniversary and the publication of the Library of America's Latino Poetry anthology! My thanks to Teri Cross Davis, the director of the O.B. Hardison Series at the Folger and Francisco Aragon, the Director of the Letras Latinas program of the Institute of Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology (Library of America, 382)

Edited by Rigoberto Gonzalez
Library of America, #382
Includes "Small Shame Blues"

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Imaniman: Poets Writing In the Anzalduan Borderlands

Edited by ire'ne lara silva & Dan Vera
(Aunt Lute Books)

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Speaking Wiri Wiri

Red Hen Press
Winner of the Letras Latinas/Red Hen Poetry Prize

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The Space Between Our Danger and Delight

Beothuk Books

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