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The Space Between
Our Danger and Delight
By Dan Vera

From Beothuk Books (2008)
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"...clear, strong, honest and funny. Dan Vera is damn good company. You’ll see." -- Martín Espada

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

Full Moon On K Street
Edited by Kim Roberts

From Plan B Press (2010)
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101 poems, written by current and former residents of Washington, DC between 1950 and the present.

"Black Nationalist Pharoah Head of Georgia Avenue"

"the first anthology of modern poetry to be wholly for, about and by current and former Washington residents -- teems with poets who've distilled the region's lifeblood into verse over the past 50 years..."
-- The Washington Post

Dog Blessings: Poems, Prose and Prayers Celebrating Our Relationship with Dogs
Edited by June Cotner

From New World Library (2008)
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"The Nature of His Knowing"

"My dogs are my life. Let this
book be a great part of yours."
-- Doris Day

D.C. Poets Against The War
An Anthology First & Second Editions
Edited by Sarah Browning,
Michele Elliott and Danny Rose

An anthology of poets speaking
out against the war in Iraq.

Argonne House Press (2004)

....."Place Poem - Washington, DC"

The news in these poems isn't always "good news," but the poems offer an essential voice of conscience in a troubled time. Read them for their courage and vital compassion.
-- Sam Hamill

Among these older voices there are new ones, too, pleasurably startling for their energy, yet sobering in their urgency and clarity. This collection is a strong response to a dangerous time.
-- Henry Taylor

Shaping Sanctuary
Edited by Kelly Turney

RCP Publications (2000)

....."Watering Love"

Volume 12.1, Winter 2011
Langston Hughes Tribute Issue
...."For Some Executors of Gay Writers"

Volume 11.5, Winter 2010
Tenth Anniversary Issue: A Celebration of Guest Editors........Comments and "Reflex," "Artifact,"
....and "Judicial Temperament"

Volume 10.4, Fall 2009
U.S. Poets Laureate Issue
....Guest Editor : Introduction and "The Library & Its
....Laureates: The Examples of Joseph Auslander, William
....Carlos Williams, James Dickey & Maxine Kumin"

Volume 9, Number 1, Winter 2008
Split This Rock Issue
...."We Abide In The Irony"
...."Uncle Sam Regrets"

Volume 8, Number 4, Fall 2007
Evolving City Issue
...."Sterling on 12th Street"

Volume 7, Number 1, Winter 2006
...."Constellations of Delight"
...."A Poem of Delight"
...."Father's Day For Gay Boys"
...."Winter Solstice Meditation"
...."DC to Newark/Astral Woman"

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The Amistad:
Howard University Literary Journal
The Ars Poetica Issue, 2008

"Goldrush of Comparisons"

The Washington Post
October 28, 2007
Mark Fisher's "Seeing the City Anew"

"Sterling on 12th Street"

Ishmael Reed's Konch magazine
Summer 2007

"Gerald Early Can't See Latinos"

Delaware Poetry Review
Spring 2007

"Beautiful Pesach Moon"
"Emily Dickinson at the Poetry Slam"

Pacifica Radio's Peace Watch
Wed. Mar. 5, 2003

"Place Poem Washington, DC"

The Washington Spark
September 20, 2005
"Two Poets Respond
to Hurricane Katrina"
...."For Gabriel"

BARK! (the BAWA* Journal)
October 2005

"The Powerful Underneath" (for Sterling Brown and Brookland), "Verb Boat" "Hallway Love"

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Raddish

Red Wheelbarrow

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