Dare Williams
Writer Editor Facilitator Artist
EDUCATION & FELLOWSHIPS
Citrus College, 2000
Community Workshops 2008-2014.
John Ashbery Home School Claremont 2016. Studied with Robin Coste-Lewis,
Dawn Lundy-Martin, Eileen Myles, Solmaz Sharif, Carmen Giminez-Smith
PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow 2019. Mentored by Sesshu Foster
PEN America Poetry Masterclass facilitated by F. Douglas Brown
UCLA Extension 2019. Studied with Rachel Kahn
UCLA Extension 2020. Studied with liz gonzalez
Costura Creative Craft intensives 2020. Studied with Sam Sax, José Oliverez, Michael Torres
Frost Place 2020. Studied with Rajiv Mohabir
Bower Poetry Project intensive 2020. Studied with Tongo Eisen-Martin
Brooklyn Poetry Workshop 2021. Studied with Darrell Alejandro Jones
Tin House Summer workshop 2021. Studied with Patricia Smith
Breadloaf scholarship recipient 2021. Studied with Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Warren Wilson MFA candidate ‘25
PUBLICATIONS
“Phone Dead in Kreuzberg”, “AT THE RAVE ALL I CARRY IS MY ENNUI” Hooligan Magazine
“A Painting, A Wonder”, “Blue in Green” West Trade Review
“The Letters Between Us”, “I Read Your Poems and I Make my Sound”, “Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting” Hashtag Magazine curated by Charles Jensen 2021.
“Collateral Damage”, “Silent Footage: Keith Haring Dances With Basquait”, “Found Objects” Limp Wrist 2021
“Overdue”, “I am Lifted From the Loudest Part”, “The Meteorite is the Source of the Light But the Meteor is Just What we See” Altadena Review 2021.
“Pulasky County” The Shore, 2021.
“What They Called Us” Night Heron Barks 2021.
“How to Make a Deer Collapse” THRUSH 2020.
“Etymology” Exposition Review 2020.
“poem” Chiron Review 2020.
“Space Invaders” Bending Genres 2020.
“Here Comes the Sun”, “Autonomous” Isacoustic 2020
“Atripla”, “An Afternoon at Del’s”, “Photograph: My Mother at The Table”,
“Travel Poem” Cultural Weekly 2019.
“Leaving the Light On” PEN America Essay 2019.
ANTHOLOGIES
“At the March”, “Hyper Vigilance” Red Shift 5, Arroyo Secco Press, 2020
NOMINATIONS/AWARDS
Best New Poets, Night Heron Barks, 2022
Best New American Poets, THRUSH, 2021
Two-time Finalist for Blood Orange Review Contest 2019, 2020
Best of The Net Nominee, Exposition Review, 2020
Pushcart Nominee, Cultural Weekly 2019
PODCASTS/Interviews
West Trade Review’s Post Script Series 2022
The Poetry Question 2022
United Against Silence 2021
EXHIBITIONS
LACDC Fall Campaign, as member of VOMIR, 2020
Queer Biennial: What if Utopia, as member of VOMIR, 2018
Round Hole Square Peg, Curated by Phil Tarley, as member of VOMIR, 2018
“Space Invaders” solicited for Exhibition by Uriel Brewer
Rachel’s Dream Thesis Show for Ryan Brewer Art Center Pasadena, 2018
CURATING & ARTS ADMINISTRATION
West Hollywood Reads Literature Festival Co-curator, producer. Organized 8 virtual events coinciding with affinity months, co-curated readers, artists, musicians. Hosted events including moderating conversations and Q&A. 2021
Peer Panelist DCA Artists Relief Grant program 2020
Word of Mouth Reading Series. Curator and organizer. Raising money for families living in food deserts and facing nutrition inequities 2019-
WORKSHOPS
“The Department of You” APLA Writer’s Workshop
“HIV writer workshops” DCA 2021-
“Ruined Splendor: Privacy, Power, Pleasure” Community Building Art Works 2021
“Persona/Personality” Central Coast Writers Workshop 2020
LECTURES
“Characterization in the Age of Technology” UCSF 2021
SELECTED READINGS
Hooligan Magazine featured Reader 2021
WeHo Reads presents: Legacy and Lineage with Rajiv Mohabir, Jubi Arriola-Headley, and Dare Williams 2021
Brooklyn Poets alumni 2021
Queer Poetry Slam featured reader 2021
Lit Crawl: Exposition Review at LA Library 2020
Antioch University Alumni, PEN fellow 2020
Visiting Reader, University San Francisco 2020
Frost Place alumni 2020
THRUSH journal contributor showcase 2020
Dirty Laundry Lit: Bridgette Bianca be/trouble book launch, Virgil 2020
PEN America Outreach Essay Readings, Skylight Books 2019
PEN America Emerging Voices, Hammer Museum 2019
PEN America Emerging Voices mid-program reading 2019
PEN America Emerging Voices Inaugural Reading, LACE Gallery 2019
Queer Poetry Showcase, Südblock café, Berlin 2018
Schreibe Jetzt! Festival, Südblock café, Berlin 2018
Homocentric, Stories books & café 2018
Home School Claremont 2017