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ABOUT DARE

 

 

Dare Williams is a Queer HIV-positive poet and literary worker rooted in Southern California. He has received support/fellowships for his work from Brooklyn Poets, Breadloaf, Tin House, and Vermont Studio Center. He has been awarded a California Arts Council Performance Grant and a Peter Taylor Fellowship with the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. His work has been featured in Kenyon Review, Foglifter, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. He is an associate poetry editor at Hooligan Magazine and a current student in the MFA program for writers at Warren Wilson College.

 

PUBLICATIONS

POEMS //

Gulp; The Minutes Add Up featured in The Kenyon Review

Thirteen Meeting My Father For the First and Last Time featured in Split This Rock’s Poem of the Week

When Momma as a Moth featured in Poetry Northwest

My Lover Watches Their Lover Die featured in Shō Poetry Journal

Every Song A Different Bruise featured in the Journal

Running on Empty; Dear , featured in San Pedro River Review

In My Dreams I am Carried Inside featured in Frontier

Settling Into My Wreckage Waves Crashing Behind Me featured in Kissing Dynamite

Gold; My Lover and I are Inventing a Country featured in HAD

For My Lover Returning To His Wife featured in HAD

What Can We Do With A Captured Asteroid featured in Okay Donkey

BITCH, I WAS ANNOUNCED featured in FogLifter Volume 7 Issue 1

AT THE RAVE ALL I CARRY IS MY ENNUI featured in Hooligan Magazine

Phone Dead in Kreuzberg featured in Hooligan Magazine

Blue In Green featured in West Trade Review

Covet featured in HAD

A Painting, A Wonder featured in West Trade Review

Overdue; I am Lifted From The Loudest Part; The Meteorite is the Source of the Light, But the Meteor is Just What we See featured in Altadena Poetry Review

Silent Footage: Keith Haring Dances with Basquiat; Found Objects; Collateral Damage featured in Limp Wrist

The Letters Between Us; I Read Your Poems and I Make My Sound featured in iARTistas: Invention issue

What They Called Us featured in Night Heron Barks 

Pulasky County featured in The Shore

How To Make A Deer Collapse featured in THRUSH 

etymology featured in Exposition Review

Atripla; An Afternoon at Del’s; Photograph, my mother at the table; Travel Poem featured in Cultural Weekly 

Space Invaders featured in Bending Genres

Hyper Vigilance; At The March featured in Red Shift 5 Anthology by Arroyo Secco Press

ESSAYS //

Leaving The Light On featured in PEN America

All These Half-floors Will Lead To Mine: On Massive Attack’s Mezzanine featured in SIXTYEIGHT20HFIVE

Events/PRESS

Zine Lunch! A Secret Third Thing: The Cento and The Cut-up with Sarabande books Friday, Sept 13, 9 a.m. pst/12 EST. register here

United Against Silence Podcast. Listen here

West Trade Review Interview Listen here

“Blue in Green” featured in West Trade Review. Listen here