A bibliography of select publications by D.L. Lang, an internationally published poet and author, whose work has appeared in numerous anthologies and publications worldwide. To purchase poetry books click here.

Publications

Print Journal Publications

  • May 17, 2024, “Love Letter to Louisiana,” Suisun Valley Review, #40, Spring 2024
  • July 16th, 2024, “2,640 Versus 7.8 Billion,” MAINTENANT 18: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art, edited by Peter Carlaftes and Kate Georges, Three Rooms Press, New York, New York. ISBN 978-1-953103-48-2
  • ”Falling Stars,” California Quarterly, Spring 2024

Online Publications

Newspaper Publications

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

2020

  • 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

2021

  • 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

2022

  • 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 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, 26th Annual Poetry Ink Anthology, Moonstone Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ISBN 9751954499904

2023

  • 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
  • December 2023, “Bill of Rights,” Bill of Rights Day 2023, Moonstone Press, ISBN 978195903888

2024

  • February 2024, Ocone, Jill, ed., “Desires of a New Age,” About Time, Red Penguin Books, Bellerose Village, New York, ISBN 978-1637775363
  • February 2024, Creditor, Menachem, ed. “In Wartime How Dare We Love?” To Write of Love During War UJA-Federation of New York 2024. ISBN 979-8879324358
  • February 2024, O’Nan, David L., ed., “Bowie Broke the Boundaries,” Starman Oddity: Poetry & Art Inspired by David Bowie Fevers of the Mind, ISBN 979-8880401932
  • March 2024 “Nothing Grows in the Garden of War,” World Healing, World Peace 2024, Inner Child Press, State College, Pennsylvania ISBN 978-1961498235
  • March 2024, “Traitriot,” Traitor / Patriot: A Reflection of January 6, Moonstone Press. Philadelphia, PA. ISBN 9781959038993
  • April 2024, O’Nan, David L., ed., “Poem for Leonard Cohen,” Avalanches in Poetry Vol III: Poetry, Writings & Art Inspired by Leonard Cohen, Fevers of the Mind, ISBN 979-8321730034
  • April 2024, “Where Do I Stand?” Boundless 2024: the Anthology of the Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival, Flowersong Press, McAllen, Texas ISBN 9781963245585
  • April 2024, “Sight” Robinson, Joshua, ed., Screaming at America! An anthology of Dissent, ISBN 9781304408112
  • May 2024, “Divided We Stand,” Hall, Fin, ed., Unite the States of America, Like a Blot from the Blue, New Pitsligo, Scotland. ISBN 979-8324838430
  • June 2024, “Belonging,” “Displaced Lines,” “Moving Forward,” “Avian Communion,” Haveman, Stephanie, ed., A Poetic Field filled with Wildwood Flowers, amL Poetry, Willemstad, Netherlands. ISBN: 979-8864490204
  • June 2024, Woessner, Circe Olson, ed. “I am from the World,” Home: It’s Complicated, Museum of the American Military Family, Albuquerque, New Mexico. ISBN 979-8327012455
  • July 2024, “Disobedience is Love,” For All, Revolutionary Poets Brigade, San Francisco. ISBN 9780938392187
  • August 2024, Focks, Red, ed., Psalms of The Alien Buddha #3: The Final Track, Alien Buddha Press, Phoenix, Arizona. ISBN 979-8328162708
  • August 2024, “And the People Rose” Fatal Force: Poetic Justice Moonstone Press. Philadelphia, PA. ISBN 9781959038979
  • August 2024 ”Columbia River Gorgeous,” Peacocks & Poems: a fusion of poetry, art and music, Fairfield, CA ISBN 9798329454628
  • August 2024, “Angel Cities,” “Unbalanced Budget,” and “Who Put Catnip in My Coffee?” Unsettled, Benicia Literary Arts, Benicia First Tuesday Poets, Benicia, California ISBN 9781735499963
  • October 2024, Wheeler, Steve, ed., “What Once Stood,” “Ghosts Define Us” Wheelsong Poetry Anthology, Vol 5. Wheelsong Books, UK. ISBN 9798340651204
  • October 2024, “Floral Child,” “Regeneration,” Yarti, Hassane, Whispers Across Languages Barcelona Literary. ISBN 9798344221656
  • November 2024, “The Snarkadelic Wordsmith Awaits the Penguin Whisperer,” Hall, Fin, ed., Ain’t No Dead Beats Around Here, Like a Blot from the Blue, Scotland. ISBN 9781300879169

Forthcoming anthologies, accepted, not yet published

  • Lipman, Mark, ed., “American Dream,” The Vagabond Lunar Collection: An anthology that’s out of this World, Vagabond Books, Venice, California (For the Lunar Codex, Codex Polaris – Launching to Nobile Crater, Lunar South Pole February 2025 via SpaceX Falcon Heavy / MoonBox / NASA CLPS-TO-20A)
  • (accepted) Okemwa, Christopher, ed., “To Be Like Aaron,” “Palestine,” War on Gaza, Kistrech, Kisii, Kenya.
  • (accepted) “Be as Nature,” “For a World where Peace is not just a Dream,” Kibriah, Shikdar Mohammed, ed., World Contemporary Poets, Vol 2., Prodigy Published.
  • (accepted, expected November 2024) Mehas, Mona, ed., “Johnson,” Lost at 27: Musicians, Artists, Mortals, Cicada Song Press. Murphysboro, Illinois.
  • (accepted) “Snow Day” Williams, T.L., ed., Whispers of Winter, Vol V
  • (accepted) “Couch Surfing in an Ice Storm,” Johnson, Alex S., ed., Rock You Like A Hurricane, Nocturnicorn Books, Sacramento, California.
  • (accepted) “And the People Rose” Human Rights Day, Moonstone Press. Philadelphia, PA.
  • January 2025, Lang, D.L., ed., Poetry is Dead II: Once You’re Dead, You’re Dead Forever Hercules Publishing ISBN: 979-8-218-54778-3

Collective Poems

Contributed lines to:

  • Herrera, Juan Felipe, ed., “La Familia” epic poem, 2016
  • Wegener, Gillian, ed. “This Steady Beat of Days: A community spread poem during the time of Covid-19” Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center, 2020
  • Dear Human at the Edge of Time community poem, AGU Science and Society & Wick Poetry Center at Kent State, National Poetry Month 2024

Articles & Essays

Spoken Word Albums

  • Happy Accidents, 2015 (Out of print.)

Other

  • Photos of me appears on pages 108 and 236 of photographer Robert A. Fischer’s book Listen Very Closely (Mystic Boxing Commission, 2021)
  • Wrote the foreword for Kyrah Ayers’ My Light (2023)
  • Wrote a blurb for Dee Allen’s Rusty Gallows (Vagabond, 2022)

You may also be interested in a list of awards or a list of press.

Poetry Collections

  • Tea & Sprockets, 2011, Paperback ISBN: 9781467900379
  • Abundant Sparks & Personal Archeology, 2013, Paperback ISBN: 9781511726665 (out of print)
  • Look Ma! No Hands!, 2015, Paperback ISBN: 9781511726504 (out of print)
  • Poet Loiterer, 2016, Paperback ISBN: 9781518713248 (out of print)
  • Id Biscuits, 2016, Paperback ISBN: 9781530453054 (out of print)
  • Barefoot in the Sanctuary, 2016, Paperback ISBN: 9781536820263 (out of print)
  • Armor Against the Dawn, 2016, Paperback ISBN: 9781540704993 (out of print)
  • Dragonfly Tomorrows & Dog-eared Yesterdays, 2017, Paperback ISBN: 978-1548437725
  • Resting on my Laurels, 2018, Paperback ISBN: 978-1983939778 (out of print)
  • The Cafe of Dreams, 2018, Paperback ISBN: 978-1727159806
  • Midnight Strike, 2019, Paperback ISBN: 9781072096016
  • This Festival of Dreams, 2020, Paperback ISBN: 9798642242759
  • Heaven is Portable, 2022, Paperback ISBN: 9798516440311
  • Earthen Rovings: Poems on Mother Nature and the Environment 2020. ISBN 9798647153074
  • Heaven is Portable 2022. ISBN 9798516440311
  • Paradise Collectors: A Book of Jewish Poetry 2023. ISBN 9798872502203
  • Wanderings 2.0: The Journey and the Destinations 2024. ISBN 9798877591356
  • Fighting the Solar System 2024. ISBN 9798334584426
  • Your Poetry eBook: Quick & Easy Formatting for Kindle, 2013 , ISBN: 978-1482719284 (out of print)
  • Paradise Collectors: A Book of Jewish Poetry, 2019, ISBN: 978-1790187706 (out of print)
  • A Topical Solution: Poems on History, Social Justice, and Current Events, 2019, ISBN: 978-1696442329 (out of print)
  • Wanderings: Selected Poems by D.L. Lang, 2018, ISBN: 9781976853616 (out of print)
  • Earthen Rovings: Poems on Mother Nature and the Environment, 2020, ISBN: 9798647153074
  • The Fourth Evolution: Vol 1: The Collected Poetry of D.L. Lang (1993-2015) (out of print)
  • The Fourth Evolution: Vol 2: The Collected Poetry of D.L. Lang (2015-2016) (out of print)

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