Dan Vera

Dan Vera is a writer, editor, 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 Speaking Wiri Wiri (Red Hen Press), The Space Between Our Danger and Delight (Beothuk Books), and the forthcoming Celestial Fire: Songs of A Love That Dares. His poems have appeared in high school textbooks and university curricula, various journals like Poetry, Notre Dame Review, and Poet Lore; and in various anthologies including most recently The Library of America’s Latino Poetry Anthology. His poem, "Emily Dickinson At the Poetry Slam" was selected for the NEA's Poetry OutLoud program and performed around the country by participants in the recitation competition. Vera has been a featured reader at poetry readings around the country and his work has been featured on the Library of Congress's broadcast Poet and the Poem, Pacifica Radio's nationally broadcast Peace Watch and Sirius Satellite Radio's Writers on Writing. Vera has been a frequent panelist on literary history, literary diversity, alternative publishing, political poetics, LGBT history and LGBT writing. A Macondo and CantoMundo writing fellow, he's had writing residencies at Monson Arts, Ragdale, Soul Mountain Retreat, and The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.