Dan Vera | |
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 Dan Vera reading at Iota Poetry Series 20th anniversary. | |
| Born | South Texas |
| Occupation | Poet, Editor |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Poetry |
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Dan Vera (born South Texas) is an American poet and editor. [1] [ unreliable source? ]
Dan Vera | |
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| Dan Vera reading at Iota Poetry Series 20th anniversary. | |
| Born | South Texas |
| Occupation | Poet, Editor |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Website | |
| danvera | |
Dan Vera (born South Texas) is an American poet and editor. [1] [ unreliable source? ]
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] [ unreliable source? ] 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] [ unreliable source? ]
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] [ unreliable source? ] and a fellow of the CantoMundo Poetry Workshop.
He lives in the Brookland neighborhood of Washington, D.C. [8] [ unreliable source? ]
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