writer / editor / watercolorist

Dan Vera

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 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, and New York City’s Poets House. 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.

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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