ABOUT DARE
Dare Williams is a Queer HIV-positive poet and literary worker rooted in Southern California. A 2019 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow, he has received support/fellowships for his work from John Ashbury Home School, The Frost Place, Brooklyn Poets, Breadloaf, Tin House, and Vermont Studio Center. Dare’s poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best American Poets. His work has been featured or forthcoming in Foglifter, Frontier, Poetry Northwest and elsewhere. He is an associate poetry editor at Hooligan Magazine and He is currently an MFA candidate at Warren Wilson College.
PUBLICATIONS
POEMS //
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
Hooligan Magazine Spring Fling April 16 7-10pm info here
Reading at Skylight for Miah Jeffre’s American Gospel info here
Weds June 16th Weho Reads Presents: Legacy and Lineage with Rajiv Mohabir, Jubi Arriola-Headly, Dare Williams. View here
PEN America Emerging Voices Final Reading Hammer Museum 2019.
View here
United Against Silence Podcast. Listen here
West Trade Review Interview Listen here
“Blue in Green” featured in West Trade Review. Listen here