Dan Vera
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Dan Vera (born South Texas) is an American poet and editor.[1]Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Career
Vera is the author of Speaking Wiri Wiri, (Red Hen Press, 2013)[2] and The Space Between Our Danger and Delight, (Beothuk Books, 2009). His manuscript The Guide to Imaginary Monuments was selected by Orlando Ricardo Menes for the 2012 Letras Latinas/Red Hen Poetry Prize[3]Script error: No such module "Unsubst". and published as Speaking Wiri Wiri.[2]
His work has appeared in The American Prospect, Foreign Policy in Focus, ''Poet Lore, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Notre Dame Review, Delaware Poetry Review, Gargoyle Magazine, Konch, and Red Wheelbarrow.[4]Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Vera's poetry blends English and Spanish. As he explains:
I love the English language. And I think one of the things that I love about the English language is the permeability of English to not only accept but also struggle with the incorporation of other languages like Spanish. So when I write, I'm constantly going back and forth between these two possible ways of articulating the world around me.[5]
He publishes other poets through Vrzhu Press and Souvenir Spoon Books.[6] Vera is the co-editor, with ire'ne lara silva, of an essay anthology about Gloria Anzaldúa, Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands, (Aunt Lute Books, 2016).[7]
He founded Brookland Area Writers & Artists and serves on the boards of Split This Rock Poetry and Rainbow History Project.[8][9] His work as co-editor with Kim Roberts of the literary history site D.C. Writers' Homes was part of his effort to get to know Washington D.C.:
I was just really fascinated to discover that writing and writers had existed in D.C. before me. I live in the Brookland neighborhood, and was fascinated to find out that Sterling Brown lived a few blocks from me and wanted to know more about him — that kind of started a progression of interest in writers, playwrights and poets and novelists who called Washington home.[5]
Vera is a member of the Macondo Writers Workshop, a workshop founded by Sandra Cisneros.[10]Script error: No such module "Unsubst". and a fellow of the CantoMundo Poetry Workshop.
Personal life
He lives in the Brookland neighborhood of Washington, D.C.[8]Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Works
Poetry collections
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Poetry in anthologies
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As editor
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External links
- Official website
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References
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- ↑ Dan Vera | Directory of Writers | Poets & Writers
- ↑ a b Speaking Wiri Wiri | Red Hen Press
- ↑ Poetry Foundation blog
- ↑ Author page on Poets and Writers http://www.pw.org/content/dan_vera
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- ↑ "Juan Felipe Herrera, Imaniman, and Gloria Anzaldúa", Aunt Lute Books website, April 2016 http://auntlute.com/7878/new_release/juan-felipe-herrera-imaniman-and-gloria-anzaldua/ Script error: No such module "webarchive".
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