Dan Vera

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Dan Vera (born South Texas) is an American poet and editor.[http://www.pw.org/content/dan_vera Dan Vera | Directory of Writers | Poets & Writers]{{Unreliable source?|date=June 2024}}

Career

Vera is the author of Speaking Wiri Wiri, (Red Hen Press, 2013)[http://redhen.org/book/?uuid=40DBD50C-BDE5-E62B-7AF0-99E3215C57E0 Speaking Wiri Wiri | Red Hen Press] 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[http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2012/04/letras-latinas-building-literary-community/ Poetry Foundation blog]{{Unreliable source?|date=June 2024}} and published as Speaking Wiri Wiri.

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.Author page on Poets and Writers'' http://www.pw.org/content/dan_vera{{Unreliable source?|date=June 2024}}

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.{{cite news|last1=Wilson|first1=Jonathan|title=Bookend: Poet Dan Vera Blends Spanish, English Influences In Latest Work|url=http://wamu.org/programs/metro_connection/13/09/27/bookend_poet_dan_vera_blends_spanish_english_influences_in_latest_work|accessdate=28 September 2014|work=Metro Connection|publisher=WAMU 88.5 American University Radio|date=27 September 2013}}

He publishes other poets through Vrzhu Press and Souvenir Spoon Books.[https://web.archive.org/web/20120126191640/http://www.danvera.com/bio.html Dan Vera biography] 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)."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/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160610163728/http://auntlute.com/7878/new_release/juan-felipe-herrera-imaniman-and-gloria-anzaldua/ |date=2016-06-10 }}

He founded Brookland Area Writers & Artists and serves on the boards of Split This Rock Poetry and Rainbow History Project.{{cite web|url=http://www.bawadc.com/members.html |title=members |publisher=brookland area writers & artists |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120229044030/http://www.bawadc.com/members.html |archivedate=February 29, 2012 }} 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.

Vera is a member of the Macondo Writers Workshop, a workshop founded by Sandra Cisneros.{{Cite web |url=http://www.guadalupeculturalarts.org/macondo-workshop-about/ |title=Macondo: About – Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center |access-date=2017-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170304042619/http://www.guadalupeculturalarts.org/macondo-workshop-about/ |archive-date=2017-03-04 |url-status=dead }}{{Unreliable source?|date=June 2024}} and a fellow of the CantoMundo Poetry Workshop.

Personal life

He lives in the Brookland neighborhood of Washington, D.C.{{cite web|last=Taub|first=Yermiyahu Ahron|title=Poet Dan Vera Finds a Home in Brookland|url=http://www.ward5heartbeat.org/feature/poet-dan-vera-finds-a-home-in-brookland/|accessdate=8 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130511023803/http://www.ward5heartbeat.org/feature/poet-dan-vera-finds-a-home-in-brookland/|archive-date=11 May 2013|url-status=dead}}{{Unreliable source?|date=June 2024}}

Works

=Poetry collections=

{{cite book| title=Speaking Wiri Wiri | isbn=978-1-59709-274-6| publisher= Red Hen Press| date= March 2013}}
{{cite book| title=The Space Between Our Danger and Delight | isbn=978-0-615-25371-8| publisher= Beothuk Books| date= March 28, 2009}}

=Poetry in anthologies=

{{cite book| title=Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology| publisher= University of Georgia Press | date=2018| isbn=978-0820353159 }}
{{cite book| title=The Traveler's Vade Mecum| publisher= Red Hen Press | date=October 10, 2016| isbn=978-1597092241 }}
{{cite book| title=The Queer South: LGBTQ Writers on the American South| publisher= Sibling Rivalry Press | date=September 16, 2014| isbn=978-1-937420-80-2 }}
{{cite book| title=Divining Divas: 100 Gay Men on their Muses| publisher= Lethe Press}}
{{cite book| title=Gratitude Prayers| publisher= Andrews McMeel | date=February 2013| isbn=978-1449421762 }}
{{cite book| title=Full Moon On K Street: Poems About Washington, DC| publisher= Plan B Press | date=December 1, 2010 }}
{{cite book| title=Dog Blessings| publisher= New World Library | date=October 1, 2008| isbn=978-1-57731-616-9 }}
{{cite book| title=D.C. Poets Against The War| publisher=Argonne House Press | year=2004| isbn=1-887641-98-X }}

=As editor=

{{cite book| title=Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands| publisher= Aunt Lute Books | date=2016| isbn=9781879960930}}, with ire'ne lara silva and an introduction by United States Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera
{{cite book| title=A Prophet in His Own Land: A Malcolm Boyd Reader| publisher= White Crane Wisdom | date=2008| isbn=978-1590210116}}, with Malcolm Boyd and Bo Young

External links

[http://www.danvera.com/ Official website]
{{Citation | url = https://www.arts.gov/audio/dan-vera/ | title = Interview on "Artworks" podcast| date = May 2015}}, National Endowment for the Arts
{{Citation | url = http://wamu.org/programs/metro_connection/13/09/27/bookend_poet_dan_vera_blends_spanish_english_influences_in_latest_work | title = Interview with Jonathan Wilson}}, WAMU's "Metro Connection"
{{Citation | url = http://washingtonart.com/beltway/vera2.html | title = poem on}} Beltway Poetry Quarterly