Dan Vera

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?]}

• Speaking Wiri Wiri. Red Hen Press. March 2013. ISBN 978-1-59709-274-6.
• The Space Between Our Danger and Delight. Beothuk Books. March 28, 2009. ISBN 978-0-615-25371-8.

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

• Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands. Aunt Lute Books. 2016. ISBN 9781879960930., with ire'ne lara silva and an introduction by United States Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera
• A Prophet in His Own Land: A Malcolm Boyd Reader. White Crane Wisdom. 2008. ISBN 978-1590210116., with Malcolm Boyd and Bo Young

• Official website
• Interview on "Artworks" podcast, May 2015, National Endowment for the Arts
• Interview with Jonathan Wilson, WAMU's "Metro Connection"
• poem on Beltway Poetry Quarterly