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.
Publications
Poetry Collections
- Tea & Sprockets, 2011, Paperback ISBN: 9781467900379
- Abundant Sparks & Personal Archeology, 2013, Paperback ISBN: 9781511726665
- Look Ma! No Hands!, 2015, Paperback ISBN: 9781511726504
- Poet Loiterer, 2016, Paperback ISBN: 9781518713248
- Id Biscuits, 2016, Paperback ISBN: 9781530453054
- Barefoot in the Sanctuary, 2016, Paperback ISBN: 9781536820263
- Armor Against the Dawn, 2016, Paperback ISBN: 9781540704993
- Dragonfly Tomorrows & Dog-eared Yesterdays, 2017, Paperback ISBN: 978-1548437725
- Resting on my Laurels, 2018, Paperback ISBN: 978-1983939778
- 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
- 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
- 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)
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, pg A5.
- December 8, 2023, “This Hanukkah,” Benicia Herald, pg B5.
- January 8, 2024, “Lightfoot Lives On,” eMerge Magazine, Winter 2024
- January 14, 2024, “MLK,” Benicia Herald, pg A6
- February 25, 2024, “In Wartime how Dare we Love?” Benicia Herald
- March 1, 2024, “Owasso,” Benicia Herald
- April 1, 2024, “To be like Aaron,” Ceasefire Now, Alien Buddha Press
- ”Falling Stars,” California Quarterly, Spring 2024
- July 8th, 2024, “Displaced Lines,” eMerge Magazine, Summer 2024
- October 14th, 2024, “A Roasted Poet Still Spits Fire,” eMerge Magazine, Fall 2024
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
Forthcoming anthologies
- 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 Nov 2024 via SpaceX Falcon Heavy / MoonBox / NASA CLPS-TO-20A)
- ”Traitriot,” Traitor / Patriot: A Reflection of January 6, Moonstone Press. Philadelphia, PA.
- (accepted, expected August 2024) “And the People Rose” Fatal Force: Poetic Justice Moonstone Press. Philadelphia, PA.
- (accepted) Haveman, Stephanie, ed., Words of Wildwood Flowers, amL Poetry, Willemstad, Netherlands
- (accepted) “Sight” Robinson, Joshua, ed., Screaming at America
- (accepted, expected April 2024) “Where Do I Stand?” Boundless 2024: the Anthology of the Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival, Flowersong Press, McAllen, Texas
- (accepted, expected April 2024) “I am from the World,” Home: It’s Complicated, Museum of the American Military Family, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
- (accepted) Aurynanya and Mehas, Mona, eds., “Johnson,” The 27 Club Anthology, Castle Carrington Publishing, Victoria, British Columbia
- (accepted in 2021, expected???) “Perpetually 26,” Beat Generation: Evolution, National Beat Poetry Foundation anthology, Local Gems Press, Long Island, NY.
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
- October 22, 2019, “Guest Column: Enid’s ties to railroad history” Enid News & Eagle
- August 2020, Kumar, Ajit & Pickering, Dustin, ed., “A Collective Experience to Learn,” Global Pandemic Crisis: a series of literary essays on quarantine, Transcendent Zero Press, Houston, Texas. ISBN 9781946460257
- December 3, 2020, “Hanukkah at Home,” Motherwell Magazine newsletter and Facebook.
- “Oklahoma Community Protests the Election of White Nationalist,” People’s Tribune, August 18, 2023
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.