About D.L. Lang - D.L. Lang

Vallejo Poet Laureate Emerita D.L. Lang is an internationally published poet. Her work appears in over 50 anthologies globally. She has performed her poetry hundreds of times at festivals, demonstrations, and literary events across California. Her poems have been transformed into songs, used as liturgy, and to advocate for a better world. A winner of the 2023 Curbside Haiku contest, her haiku was displayed across downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma and archived at the Woody Guthrie Center. In 2023 Lang performed at the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival, Vallejo Poetry Festival, Flyway Festival and Laborfest. She also went viral for a poem about Elon Musk. KPOO, KPFA, KALW, and KZCT have broadcast her poetry.

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Poetry Publications

February 18, 2015, “Prayer for the Shomrim,” Jewish Journal of Los Angeles
September 23, 2016, “Sheltering in Places,” Benicia Herald Poetry Corner
November 4th, 2016, “Worldly Windows,” Benicia Herald Poetry Corner
December 3rd, 2016, “Stay,” Benicia Herald Poetry Corner
December 15th, 2017, “Train Whistle Polka,” Benicia Herald Poetry Corner
January 5th, 2018, “Benicia Bound,” Benicia Herald Poetry Corner
February 23, 2018, “Love Poetry Capital Blockade,” Benicia Herald Poetry Corner
June 15, 2018, “How to Swim through a Tornado,” Benicia Herald Poetry Corner
September 7, 2018, “The Woodpecker’s Beat,” Benicia Herald First Friday Poetry Corner
September 17, 2018 “Turning: A Poem for Yom Kippur” ReformJudaism.org
November 2016, “Pier Dreams,” Benicia Library Poem of the Month
March 2016, “Prayer for the Shomrim,”The Voice, Congregation Rodef Sholom
November 2017, “Use Elevator to Exit Reality,” Poets Are Heroes Magazine, pg. 54, Realistic Poetry International, Phoenix, Arizona
March 19, 2019, “49 Lights” Vallejo Times Herald, pg. A9
March 19, 2020, “No Other Planet,” Poetry Expressed, Vol. 5
April 1, 2020, “A Thousand Per Day,” Frost Meadow Review, Pandemic Poetry, Gorham, Maine.
April 24, 2020, “What Remains is Love” Benicia Herald Going the Distance, pg A9
July 26, 2020, “July 4th, 2020” Benicia Herald Yearning to Breathe Free, pg A3
September 1, 2020, “Pieces” San Francisco Public Library Poem of the Day
September 30, 2020, “Pandemic Mismanagement” Benicia Herald Yearning to Breathe Free, pg A3
September 16, 2021, “Commonalities,” Lake County Bloom
September 23, 2021, “These Wild Winds,” Lake County Bloom
January 2022, “American Dream,” Free Venice Beachhead, #470, pg 11
August 24, 2022, ”Columbia River Gorgeous,” KALW 91.7 FM Bay Poets
“Labor Shortage,” edited by M.S. Evans, Work and the Anthropocene, Ice Floe Press, Dothan, Alabama, September 5, 2022.
October 20, 2022, ”What Dreams Danced Here?” Lake County Bloom
October 20, 2022, ”The Northwest,” Lake County Bloom
January 8, 2023, “Fire, Water, Wind,” Benicia Herald, page A5
April 9, 2023, “Eternal,” Benicia Herald
October 18, 2023, “Who?” The People’s Tribune
October 19, 2023, “Ars Poetica,” Vallejo Weekly, Vol. 11, No. 42., pg. 6
October 22, 2023, “October is Filled with Sorrow,” Benicia Herald, pg A5
November 5, 2023, “I Pray for My People,” Benicia Herald

Poetry Anthologies

November 2017, Lupert, Rick, ed., “Watch This Space,” A Poet’s Siddur, Ain’t Got No Press, Van Nuys, California. ISBN 9780982058480
April 2018, “Letting in the Light,” “Lighting Up,” “Bright Light,” “The Choice,” Light & Shadow, Benicia First Tuesday Poets Anthology, Benicia Literary Arts, Benicia, California. ISBN 9780970373762
September 2018, Neff, Kirsten, & Pellegrin, Jim, ed., “Is,” Marin Poetry Center Anthology, Vol. XXI, Littoral Press, Richmond, California. ISBN 9780988969421
March 2019, Lang, D.L. ed., Verses, Voices & Visions of Vallejo ISBN 9781724462633
August 2020, Biel, Sara, & Brundage, Karla, ed. “Everyone Deserves a Home.” Colossus: Home: An Anthology of Lives in and out of Place, Colossus Press, Oakland, California. ISBN 9781735252643
September 2020, Wallis, Alexander & Wild, Nicole, ed., “Knowing” Introspective, BloodRedStar Publications, Great Britain. ISBN 9798687549165
November 2020, Focks, Red, ed.,“On the Eve of the Revolution,” The Alien Buddha Wears A Black Bandanna, Alien Buddha Press, Spartanburg, South Carolina. ISBN 9798693006782
November 2020, Focks, Red, ed., “Hanukkah Time,” Happy Fukkadays 2 U from the Alien Buddha, Alien Buddha Press, Spartanburg, South Carolina. ISBN 9798696227269
November 2020, Okemwa, Christopher, ed., “Hart Island,” “Only Ghosts May Gather,” Musings During a Time of Pandemic: A World Anthology of Poems on COVID-19, Kistrech Theatre International, Kisii, Kenya. ISBN 9789966955951
November 2020, Musiyiwa, Ambrose, ed., “Dear Vallejo,” Black Lives Matter: Poems for a New World, Civic Leicester, Leicester, England. ISBN 9781916459359
December 2020, Martin, Robert, ed.,“Tyranny or Humanity,” Poems of Political Protest, City Limits Publishing, Nashville, Tennessee. ISBN 9781954403000
December 2020, Lufkin, Kas and Thornley, Katrina, ed., “Enid’s OK,” From the Soil: A Hometown Anthology, Exeter Publishing, Exeter, Rhode Island. ISBN 9798583850617
December 2020, Yilmaz, Hülya N., ed.,“Goals for a New Year,” Poetry: The Best of 2020, Inner Child Press International, State College, Pennsylvania. ISBN 9781952081378
December 2020, Simpson, Medinah and Seven, Seher, ed., “2020 Vision,” 2020: Our Voices, Align With Plants, Tempe, Arizona. ISBN 9781666236354

January 2021, Potter, Matt, ed., “Your Birth Day,” Birth, Lifespan, Vol. 1, Pure Slush Books, Sefton Park, Australia. ISBN 9781922427205
February 2021, Cline-Tardiff, Karen, ed., “Coup des Imbeciles,” Insurrection, Gnashing Teeth Publishing, Rockport, Texas. ISBN 9781734049558
February 2021, Edwards, Amanda and Small, Rachel, ed., “Solo,” Red Skies, Splintered Disorder Press, Ontario, Canada. ISBN 9798702942049
March 2021, Focks, Red, ed., “An Introvert’s Operations Manual,” The Alien Buddha Skips the Party, Alien Buddha Press, Spartanburg, South Carolina. ISBN 9798577062279
March 2021, Haugen, Hayley, “Experience is the Polish of Life,” Pandemic Evolution, Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, Russell, Kentucky. ISBN 9781735400235
March 2021, Van Nelson, Kelly, ed., “This Small World,” Globalisation: The Sphere Keeps Spinning, Making Magic Happen Press, Perth, Australia. ISBN 9780645096613
April 2021, Stuber, Doug, ed., “What Must Be Done,” Poems from the Heron Clan, VIII, Katherine James Books, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. ISBN 9781733929936
April 2021, Focks, Red, ed., “Excerpts from a Redacted Life,” The Alien Buddha Gets a Real Job, Alien Buddha Press, Spartanburg, South Carolina. ISBN 9798702028163
May 2021, Focks, Red, ed., “Staying Afloat in a Wobbly Universe,” The Last Time The Alien Buddha Got Sooo High, Alien Buddha Press, Spartanburg, South Carolina. ISBN 9798726871189
May 2021, Cooper, Vincent & Vidaurre, Edward, ed., “How Do You Sleep in a War Zone?” Good Cop / Bad Cop, Flowersong Press, McAllen, Texas. ISBN 9781953447784
June 2021, Kumari Gilman, Maia and Magalaner Stone, Jillian, ed., “A Complete Healing,” Anthology House Vol. 2: Creative Visions of Global Wellness, ASEI Arts, New York City, New York. ISBN 9780998842189
June 2021, Lufkin, Kas and Thornley, Katrina, ed., “Chickadeean Rhythms,” Adfectus, Exeter Publishing, Exeter, Rhode Island. ISBN 9798515034177
June 2021, Focks, Red, ed., “Marley,” The Rastaman: Conversations with Bob Marley, Alien Buddha Press, Spartanburg, South Carolina. ISBN 9798727953129
June 2021, Moran Neil, Jan, and Spalding, Adrian, ed., “Kissing Oceans” When this is All Over, Creative Ink Publishing, United Kingdom. ISBN 9798518906778
September 2021, Powell, Francis H., ed., “We Long,” Together Behind Four Walls, Goldcrest Books, United Kingdom. ISBN 9781913719340
September 2021, Focks, Red, ed., “Deja Vu Dreamscape,” The Alien Buddha Goes Pop! Alien Buddha Press, Spartanburg, South Carolina. ISBN 9798511774343
October 2021, “Our Streets,” Protest 2021, Moonstone Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ISBN 9781954499423
October 2021, Okemwa, Christopher, ed., “Where Were You on the First Week of June?” I Can’t Breathe: A Poetic Anthology of Social Justice, Kistrech Theatre International, Kisii, Kenya. ISBN 9789914988505
December 2021, Aharoni, Ada and Roy, Vijay Kumar, ed., IFLAC Peace Anthology: Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery, International Forum for the Literature and Culture of Peace, Haifa, Israel, ISBN 9798775435080

January 2022, Lipman, Mark, ed., “American Dream,” Reimagine America: An anthology for the future, Vagabond Books, Venice, California, ISBN 9781936293445
February 2022, Sourav Sarkar, ed., “What Counts,” Cooch Behar Anthology, Cooch Behar, India, ISBN 9798411541991
March 2022, “Dear Women,” International Women’s Day 2022, Moonstone Arts Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, ISBN: 978-1-954499-68-3
May 2022, Fielding, Daniel, ed., “What is to be Gained,” Resist With Every Inch and Every Breath, Lonely Cryptid Media, Owatonna, Minnesota, ISBN: 9781005648480
May 2022, ”Working Man,” May Day 2022, Moonstone Arts Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ISBN 978-1-954499-83-6
May 2022, Focks, Red, ed., “The Dreamers,” Psalms of the Alien Buddha: Part 2, Alien Buddha Press, Spartanburg, South Carolina. ISBN 979-8822053663
May 2022, PW Covington, ed., “Living Dead,” Poetry Is Dead: An Inclusive Anthology of Deadhead Poetry, Hercules Publishing, Albuquerque, New Mexico. ISBN 979-8218003593
June 2022, Gast, Mary Susan, ed., “July 4th, 2020,” “What Remains is Love,” and “Pandemic Mismanagement,” Yearning to Breathe Free: A Community Journal of 2020, Benicia Literary Arts. ISBN 9781735499925

June 2022, Lisbit Bailey, Kristina Brown, Bobby Coleman, John Curl, Karen Melander-Magoon, ed., ”In the Name of Profit the Earth Burns,” Storm Warning: Poets for the Planet Building Socialism, Revolutionary Poets Brigade, San Francisco, California. ISBN: 9780938392163
August 2022, ”Nucleomituphobia,” Hiroshima Day, Moonstone Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ISBN: 978-1-959038-09-2
August 2022, Cozza, Vanessa, ed., “6/13/2020,” The Protest Diaries, B Cubed Press, Horse Heaven, Washington. ISBN: 9781949476262
August 2022, “A Flame Extinguished,” Colossus: Freedom, Colossus Press, Oakland, CA ISBN:9781735252650

August 2022, ”Kerouac,” National Beat Poetry Foundation & Friends Remembering Jack Kerouac on his 100th Birthday 3-12-2022, New Generation Beat Publications, Wolcott, CT, ISBN: 9781957654010
September 2022, “Guardians of Justice,” When There are Nine, Moon Tide Press, Whittier, CA. ISBN:9781957799032
September 2022, “The Day They Banned Love,” Banned Books Week, Moonstone Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ISBN:9781959038115
November 2022, The Alien Buddha’s Microdoses, Alien Buddha Press, Spartanburg, South Carolina. ISBN: 979-8844476075
November 2022, Stanton, Tom, “This Land of Soul,” “Eternal Drifter,” “Airplane Mode,” Nooks & Crannies, Benicia First Tuesday Poets Anthology, Benicia Literary Arts. ISBN: 9781735499918
December 2022, “Elevation Location,” 26th Annual Poetry Ink Anthology, Moonstone Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ISBN 9751954499904
February 2023, “Update the Software of Your Perceptions,” The Alien Buddha Gets Rejected, Vol. 2, Alien Buddha Press, Spartanburg, South Carolina. ISBN 979-8370718717
April 2023, Prada, Melissa, ed., “Same Old Bloody Song,” American Graveyard: Calls to End Gun Violence, Read or Green Books, Albuquerque, New Mexico. ISBN 9798986140674
May 2023, “No War But Class War,” “The Fall,” The Alien Buddha Gets a Real Job, Vol. 2. Alien Buddha Press, Spartanburg, South Carolina, ISBN 9798378854370
July 2023, Juhasz, Paul, ed., “You Lot That Cause This Rot,”, “No Greater Love,” “Together We Will Rise,” The Working Man’s Hand: Celebrating Woody Guthrie Poems of Protest and Resistance, Fine Dog Press, Morris, Oklahoma, ISBN: 9781955478168
July 2023, “Poem for Woody Guthrie,” Remembering Woody Guthrie Moonstone, Philadelphia, PA. ISBN: 9781959038603
September 2023, “We Must Pick Up The Pieces,” Revolutionary Poets Brigade anthology Healing A Fractured World Kallatumba Press San Francisco, CA ISBN 9780938392170
September 2023, “Words Left Unsaid,” I Never Could Talk to You, L.A. Poetry Beach Festival, ISBN 9798861584968
September 2023, Yaryan, Daniel, ed., The Sparring Artists, Mystic Boxing Commission/Peer Amid Press ISBN 9781733548168
October 2023, “Long Live Neruda!” Remembering Pablo Neruda, Moonstone, Philadelphia, PA. ISBN 978-1959038801
October 2023, “Labor Ancestry,” Which Side Are You On? Labor Day 2023, Moonstone, Philadelphia, PA. ISBN: 9781959038641
October 2023, “I Pray for My People,” ‘Am Yisrael Chai UJA-Federation of New York. 2023. ISBN 9798864248027
November 2023, “Communal Dining on Loose Fruit,” Alien Buddha Loves You, Alien Buddha Press. ISBN 9798853991262

Forthcoming anthologies

(accepted, expected April 2024) “I am from the World,” Home: It’s Complicated, Museum of the American Military Family, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
(accepted) “Perpetually 26,” Beat Generation: Evolution, National Beat Poetry Foundation anthology, Local Gems Press, Long Island, NY.