Welcome to Dan Vera's website

"He’s the sharp-eyed observer in the corner who doesn’t say much, but makes every word count. Dan Vera is damn good company. You’ll see."
— Martín Espada

"This is what we first understood poetry to be, miraculous and humble. In the deepest part of the heart where we truly reside, there is always a wish that poetry will rinse off artifice.
This is it." — Grace Cavalieri

"Dan's work 'delights' with its humor and irony. And his love poems are understated in the best way."
— Francisco Aragon

"Dan Vera’s poems are melodic, lucid, and concise examinations of “the limits of earthly loving.”
— Jeff Mann

"Dan Vera's debut collection...is just like the cover image -- full of sparks. And also like the sparkler, the poems crackle and burn...reminded me of Ted Kooser, but also the whimsy often found in the work of our poetry grandfather, Walt Whitman."

— Collin Kelley

"To read Dan Vera is to believe the world is actually a good place after all – a place where the reputation of poetry is redeemed with humor and kindness."
— Grace Cavalieri

New dates on the readings page!
New Anthology:bFull Moon On K Street: Poems of Washington DC00
New Book:bThe Space Between Our Danger and Delight!