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Diana Lucille Lang (born 1983, Bad Hersfeld, West Germany), known professionally as D. L. Lang, is an American poet. Her poetry is anthologized in over 60 anthologies. She has published 16 full-length books of poetry, and served as the Poet Laureate of Vallejo, California.




Early life


Diana Lucille Lang (née Kettle) was born in Bad Hersfeld, West Germany where her American father was stationed in the military, and met her mother who is German. As a result of growing up in a military family as a child Lang relocated frequently, residing in Herleshausen, West Germany, Santa Fe, Texas, Alexandria, Louisiana, and Enid, Oklahoma. Lang graduated from Enid High School in 2001, received an Associate of Science in General Studies at Northern Oklahoma College, and obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Film Studies with a minor in Judaic Studies from the University of Oklahoma. After college she moved to California in 2005 and married Timothy Lang in 2006, living in San Rafael, California prior to moving to Vallejo.




Film and television


While in college Lang worked as a video editor at television station KXOK-LD, as webmaster for University of Oklahoma student radio station the Wire, and as a band promoter for Grey from Enid, Oklahoma. She also created documentary films and music videos, including Liquid Wind, a kiteboarding film by director Charles Maupin that features an interview with Mike Morgan, which was broadcast on Oklahoma PBS affiliate OETA, and The Hebrew Project, a Hebrew language film that featured University of Oklahoma professors Ori Kritz and Norman Stillman, which was broadcast on The Jewish Channel.




Poetry


Lang began writing poetry as a child, first attempting to write song lyrics. She cites The Beatles, Pete Seeger, Allen Ginsberg, Jim Morrison, and Bob Dylan as influences. In addition to writing about her life, Lang writes on themes of Judaism, social justice, political protest, feminism, anti-capitalism, anti-racism and pacifism. Lang began performing her poetry in 2015 at Poetry by the Bay. Her poems have been published in newspapers, journals, and anthologies.
Lang's poem "American Dream," originally included in the 2022 anthology Reimagine America: An Anthology for the Future will be included in The Vagabond Lunar Collection which features the social justice themed work of 127 poets. Mark Lipman of Vagabond Books compiled the collection for Samuel Peralta's Lunar Codex time capsule project, which launches art stored on memory cards and nano-fiche to the moon. The anthology is included in Codex Polaris, traveling to the Nobile Crater as part of NASA's Artemis program, and is expected to launch to the moon in November 2024 or February 2025.




= Vallejo Poet Laureate

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D. L. Lang was appointed Poet Laureate of Vallejo, California in September 2017 and served through December 2019. As poet laureate Lang edited the poetry anthology Verses, Voices & Visions of Vallejo and performed 141 times in 18 different cities. Lang gave the invocation at the 2019 Vallejo Women's March. During her tenure she also performed her poetry at many local events, including Vallejo Unites Against Hatred, Unity Day, International Peace Day and Why Poetry Matters. Lang also gave a presentation on Emma Lazarus and Alicia Ostriker for AAUW Voices of Change. Lang also judged seven contests including the county Poetry Out Loud high school recitation competition, Joel Fallon poetry scholarship, Solano County Fair talent competition, Vallejo poetry slam, and county library teen writing competition. She performed regularly on air on KZCT and on stage at Poetry by the Bay. Like her predecessor, she led the Poetry in Notion poetry circle and hosted annual events for National Poetry Month. She attended poets laureate conferences in Tujunga and San Mateo. Lang was preceded as Vallejo's poet laureate by Dr. Genea Brice, and succeeded by Jeremy Snyder, then host of Poetry by the Bay. The California State Senate, California Arts Council, and Vallejo City Council awarded Lang with proclamations for serving as poet laureate.




= 2020-present

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In 2020 she was a featured act at the Solano County Virtual Fair, and judged the library's teen poetry competition. In 2021 she performed virtually for Poetry Flash and Point Arena Third Thursday Poetry. She also performed with Brice and Snyder at Alibi Bookshop, and for the Jewish Democrats of Solano County. In 2022 she performed for the AAUW, Solano County Library, San Francisco Public Library, a beat poetry festival at the Empress Theatre, the abortion rights group RiseUp4AbortionRights, the Beat Museum and LaborFest with the Revolutionary Poets Brigade, judged the Solano library's teen poetry competition, and appeared on the Rooted in Poetry podcast. In 2023 she performed at the Flyway Festival, Cordelia Library for Poetry Month, Vallejo Poetry Festival, Laborfest at the Tenderloin Museum, Revolution Books in Berkeley to support freeing Iranian political prisoners, and a labor protest against Elon Musk. In 2023 she was also one of ten winners of the Curbside Haiku contest in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and performed at the 2023 Woody Guthrie Folk Festival in Okemah, Oklahoma. Lang was a member of the committee to choose Snyder’s successors as poet laureate, and judged the Solano Library's teen poetry competition.
In 2024 Lang performed at the Starry Plough Pub in Berkeley in support of Toomaj Salehi. She also gave a reading at a Jewish art exhibit at the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum, with fellow poets laureate at the Fairfield Library, the Solano County Fair, Mare Island Art Studios, and the Beat Museum. She also interviewed on KZCT. In March 2024 Lang was among several Vallejo women activists who received a proclamation from the Vallejo City Council in honor of Women's History Month. She also performed at Ink and Inspiration in Enid, Oklahoma, the Scissortail Creative Writing Festival in Ada, Oklahoma, and the 2024 Woody Guthrie Folk Festival. She continues to perform poetry live on air at KZCT radio. Radio stations KPOO, KPFA, and KALW have also broadcast Lang’s poetry.




Works






= Poetry collections

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Tea and Sprockets 2011. ISBN 9781467900379
Abundant Sparks and Personal Archeology 2013. ISBN 9781511726665
Look, Ma! No Hands! 2015. ISBN 9781511726504
Poet Loiterer 2016. ISBN 9781518713248
Id Biscuits 2016. ISBN 9781530453054
Barefoot in the Sanctuary 2016. ISBN 9781536820263
Armor Against the Dawn 2016. ISBN 9781540704993
Dragonfly Tomorrows and Dog-eared Yesterdays 2017. ISBN 9781548437725
Resting on my Laurels 2018. ISBN 9781983939778
The Cafe of Dreams 2018. ISBN 9781727159806
Midnight Strike 2019. ISBN 9781072096016
This Festival of Dreams 2020. ISBN 9798642242759
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




= Spoken word albums

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Happy Accidents 2015.




= Poetry anthologies

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Editor

Verses, Voices & Visions of Vallejo 2019. ISBN 9781724462633



Contributor

A Poet's Siddur: Friday Evening Liturgy Through the Eyes of Poets Ain't Got No Press. 2017. ISBN 9780982058480
Light & Shadow Benicia Literary Arts. 2018. ISBN 9780970373762
Marin Poetry Center Anthology, Vol. 21 Marin Poetry Center. 2018. ISBN 9780988969421
Verses, Voices & Visions of Vallejo 2019. ISBN 9781724462633
Colossus: Home: An Anthology of Lives in and out of Place Colossus Press. 2020. ISBN 9781735252643
Introspective BloodRedStar Publications. 2020. ISBN 9798687549165
The Alien Buddha Wears a Black Bandanna Alien Buddha Press. 2020. ISBN 9798693006782
Black Lives Matter: Poems for a New World Civic Leicester. 2020. ISBN 9781916459359
Happy Fukkadays 2 U from the Alien Buddha Alien Buddha Press. 2020. ISBN 9798696227269
Poems of Political Protest City Limits Publishing. 2020. ISBN 9781954403000
Musings During a Time of Pandemic: A World Anthology of Poems on COVID-19 Kistrech Theatre International. 2020. ISBN 9789966955951
Poetry: The Best of 2020 Inner Child Press. 2020. ISBN 9781952081378
From the Soil: A Hometown Anthology Exeter Publishing. 2020. ISBN 9798583850617
Birth Lifespan Vol. 1 Pure Slush Books. 2021. ISBN 9781922427205
Red Skies: A Creators Response to 2020 Splintered Disorder Press. 2021. ISBN 9798702942049
2020: Our Voices Barnes & Noble Press. 2021. ISBN 9781666236354
Insurrection Gnashing Teeth Publishing. 2021. ISBN 9781734049558
The Alien Buddha Skips the Party Alien Buddha Press. 2021. ISBN 9798577062279
Globalisation: A Poetry Collection Making Magic Happen Press. 2021. ISBN 9780645096613
Pandemic Evolution: Days 1-100 Sheila-Na-Gig Editions. 2021. ISBN 9781735400235
The Alien Buddha Gets A Real Job Alien Buddha Press. 2021. ISBN 9798702028163
The Last Time the Alien Buddha Got Sooo High Alien Buddha Press. 2021. ISBN 9798726871189
Poems from the Heron Clan Vol. VIII Katherine James Books. 2021. ISBN 9781733929936
Adfectus Exeter Publishing. 2021. ISBN 9798515034177
Good Cop/Bad Cop Flowersong Press. 2021. ISBN 9781953447784
Anthology House, Vol. 2 ASEI Arts. 2021. ISBN 9780998842189
The Rastaman: Conversations with Bob Marley Alien Buddha Press. 2021. ISBN 9798727953129
When this is all over... Creative Ink Publishing. 2021. ISBN 9798518906778
The Alien Buddha Goes Pop Alien Buddha Press. 2021. ISBN 9798511774343
Together Behind Four Walls Goldcrest Books. 2021. ISBN 9781913719340
Protest 2021 Moonstone Arts Center. 2021. ISBN 9781954499423
I Can’t Breathe: A Poetic Anthology of Social Justice Kistrech Theatre International. 2021. ISBN 9789914988505
IFLAC Peace Anthology: Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery International Forum for the Literature and Culture of Peace. 2021. ISBN 9798775435080
Cooch Behar Anthology 2022. ISBN 9798411541991
Reimagine America: An anthology for the future Vagabond Books. 2022. ISBN 9781936293445
International Women’s Day 2022 Moonstone Arts Center. 2022. ISBN 9781954499683
Resist with every Inch and Breath Lonely Cryptid Media. 2022. ISBN 9781005648480
Psalms of the Alien Buddha, Vol. 2 Alien Buddha Press. 2022. ISBN 9798822053663
May Day 2022 Moonstone Arts Center. 2022. ISBN 9781954499836
Poetry is Dead: An Inclusive Anthology of Deadhead Poetry Hercules Publishing. 2022. ISBN 9798218003593
Yearning to Breathe Free: A Community Journal of 2020 Benicia Literary Arts. 2022. ISBN 9781735499925
Storm Warning: Poets for the Planet Building Socialism Revolutionary Poets Brigade. 2022. ISBN 9780938392163
The Protest Diaries B Cubed Press. 2022. ISBN 9781949476262
Hiroshima Day Moonstone Arts Center. 2022. ISBN 9781959038092
When There are Nine Moon Tide Press. 2022. ISBN 9781957799032
Colossus: Freedom Colossus Press. 2022. ISBN 9781735252650
Remembering Jack Kerouac on his 100th Birthday New Generation Beat Publications. 2022. ISBN 9781957654010
Banned Books Week Moonstone Arts Center. 2022. ISBN 9781959038115
The Alien Buddha’s Microdoses Alien Buddha Press. 2022. ISBN 9798844476075
Nooks & Crannies Benicia Literary Arts. 2022. ISBN 9781735499918
26th Annual Poetry Ink Anthology Moonstone Press. 2023.
American Graveyard: Calls to End Gun Violence Read or Green Books. 2023. ISBN 9798986140674
The Alien Buddha Gets Rejected, Vol. 2 Alien Buddha Press. 2023. ISBN 9798370718717
The Alien Buddha Gets a Real Job, Vol. 2 Alien Buddha Press. 2023. ISBN 9798378854370
The Working Man’s Hand: Celebrating Woody Guthrie Poems of Protest and Resistance Fine Dog Press. 2023. ISBN 9781955478168
Remembering Woody Guthrie Moonstone Press. 2023. ISBN 9781959038603
Healing a Fractured World Kallatumba Press. 2023. ISBN 9780938392170
I Never Could Talk to You L.A. Poetry Beach Festival. 2023. ISBN 9798861584968
Which Side Are You On? Labor Day 2023 Moonstone Press. 2023. ISBN 9781959038641
Remembering Pablo Neruda Moonstone Press. 2023. ISBN 9781959038801
The Sparring Artists Mystic Boxing Commission/Peer Amid Press. 2023. ISBN 9781733548168
Am Yisrael Chai UJA-Federation of New York. 2023. ISBN 9798864248027
The Alien Buddha Loves You Alien Buddha Press. 2023. ISBN 9798853991262
Bill of Rights Day 2023 Moonstone Press. 2023. ISBN 9781959038887
About Time Red Penguin Books. 2024. ISBN 9781637775363
To Write of Love During War UJA-Federation of New York. 2024. ISBN 9798879324358
Starman Oddity: Poetry & Art Inspired by David Bowie Fevers of the Mind. 2024. ISBN 9798880401932
World Healing, World Peace 2024 Inner Child Press. 2024. ISBN 9781961498235
Traitor / Patriot: A Reflection of January 6 Moonstone Press. 2024. ISBN 9781959038993
Avalanches in Poetry Vol III: Poetry, Writings & Art Inspired by Leonard Cohen Fevers of the Mind. ISBN 9798321730034
Boundless 2024: the Anthology of the Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival Flowersong Press. 2024. ISBN 9781963245585
The Vagabond Lunar Collection: An anthology that’s out of this World Vagabond Books. 2024.
Unite the States of America Like a Blot from the Blue. 2024. ISBN 9798324838430
Screaming at America! An anthology of Dissent 2024. ISBN 9781304408112
A poetic field filled with Wildwood Flowers: An anthology of poetry and prose 2024. ISBN 9798864490204
Home: It’s Complicated Museum of the American Military Family. 2024. ISBN 9798327012455
Maintenant 18: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art Three Rooms Press. 2024. ISBN 9781953103482
Psalms of The Alien Buddha #3: The Final Track Alien Buddha Press. 2024. ISBN 979-8328162708
For All Revolutionary Poets Brigade. 2024. ISBN 9780938392187
Fatal Force: Poetic Justice Moonstone Press. 2024. ISBN 9781959038979
Peacocks & Poems 2024. ISBN 9798329454628
Unsettled Benicia Literary Arts. 2024. ISBN 9781735499963
Wheelsong Poetry Anthology, Vol 5. Wheelsong Books. 2024. ISBN 9798340651204
Whispers Across Languages Barcelona Literary. 2024. ISBN 9798344221656
Ain't No Deadbeats Around Here Like a Blot from the Blue. 2024. ISBN 9781300879169




= Poetry publications

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Lang, D. L., "Prayer for Shomerim," Jewish Journal of Los Angeles, February 18, 2015
Lang, D. L., “Sheltering in Places,” Benicia Herald, September 23, 2016
Lang, D. L., “Worldly Windows,” Benicia Herald, November 4, 2016
Lang, D. L., “Stay,” Benicia Herald, December 3, 2016
Lang, D. L., “Train Whistle Polka,” Benicia Herald, December 15, 2017
Lang, D. L., “Benicia Bound,” Benicia Herald, January 5, 2018
Lang, D. L., “Love Poetry Capital Blockade,” Benicia Herald, February 23, 2018
Lang, D. L., “How to Swim through a Tornado,” Benicia Herald, June 15, 2018
Lang, D. L., “The Woodpecker’s Beat,” Benicia Herald, September 7, 2018
Lang, D. L., "Turning: A Poem for Yom Kippur," Reformjudaism.org, September 17, 2018
Lang, D. L., "49 Lights," Vallejo Times Herald, pg. A9, March 19, 2019
Lang, D. L., "No Other Planet," Poetry Expressed Vol. 5, Spring 2020
Lang, D. L., "One Thousand Per Day," Frost Meadow Review, April 1, 2020
Lang, D. L., “What Remains is Love,” Benicia Herald, pg A9, April 24, 2020
Lang, D. L., “July 4th, 2020,” Benicia Herald, pg A3, July 26, 2020
Lang, D. L., “Pandemic Mismanagement,” Benicia Herald, pg A3, September 30, 2020
Lang, D. L., “Commonalities,” The Lake County Bloom, September 16, 2021
Lang, D. L., “These Wild Winds,” The Lake County Bloom, September 23, 2021
Lang, D. L., “American Dream,” The Free Venice Beachhead, Vol. 470, January 2022
Lang, D. L., “Columbia River Gorgeous,” KALW Bay Poets, August 24, 2022
Lang, D. L., "Labor Shortage," Work & the Anthropocene, September 5, 2022
Lang, D. L., ”What Dreams Danced Here?” The Lake County Bloom, October 20, 2022
Lang, D. L., ”The Northwest” The Lake County Bloom, October 20, 2022
Lang, D. L., “Fire, Water, Wind,” Benicia Herald, January 8, 2023, page A5
Lang, D. L., "Eternal," Benicia Herald, April 9, 2023
Lang, D. L., "Who?" People's Tribune, October 18, 2023
Lang, D. L., "Ars Poetica," Vallejo Weekly, October 19, 2023
Lang, D. L., “October is Filled with Sorrow,” Benicia Herald, October 22, 2023, page A5
Lang, D. L., “I Pray for My People,” Benicia Herald, November 5, 2023, page A5
Lang, D. L., “This Hanukkah,” Benicia Herald, December 8, 2023, page B5
Lang, D. L., "Lightfoot Lives On," eMerge Magazine, January 8, 2024
Lang, D. L., “MLK,” Benicia Herald, January 14, 2024, page A6
Lang, D. L., “In Wartime how Dare we Love?” Benicia Herald, February 25, 2024
Lang, D. L., “Owasso,” Benicia Herald, March 1, 2024
Lang, D. L., ”Falling Stars,” California Quarterly, Vol. 50, No. 1, Spring 2024
Lang, D. L., “Love Letter to Louisiana,” Suisun Valley Review, #40, Spring 2024, May 17, 2024
Lang, D. L., “Outlaw Code,” Beat Poetry Outlaw series, Fevers of the Mind, May 22, 2024.
Lang, D. L., “To Fulfill the Workers’ Dream,” Forward Together: CPUSA 32nd National Convention Program Book, pg 8.
Lang, D. L., ”Ignite,” “The Freedom to Love,” “There are Seven Blessings at the End of the Rainbow,” Pride 2024, Alien Buddha Press, June 1, 2024.
Lang, D. L., “Dylan,” “Hope of All People,” “Welcome…Type HARD!!!” Hard Rain Poetry Series Inspired by Bob Dylan, Fevers of the Mind, June 4, 2024.
Lang, D. L., "Displaced Lines," eMerge Magazine, July 8, 2024.
Lang, D. L., "The Dreamers," "Poem for Woody Guthrie," "Revolution in Rhyme," "Living Dead," "Ode to Bob Dylan," Fevers of the Mind, July 26, 2024
Lang, D. L., “We Must Pick Up the Pieces,” People's Tribune August 21, 2024




= Articles and essays

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Lang, Diana L., "Enid's Ties to Railroad History," Enid News & Eagle, October 16, 2019
"A Collective Experience to Learn" Global Pandemic Crisis: A Series of Literary Essays on Quarantine Transcendent Zero Press. 2020. ISBN 9781946460257
"Oklahoma Community Protests the Election of White Nationalist," People’s Tribune, August 18, 2023
"Oklahoma Voters Successfully Recall White Nationalist," People’s Tribune, April 25, 2024
"How Enid, Okla., united to remove a local fascist from office," People's World, May 7, 2024
"Proletarian verse and protest songs thrive at Woody Guthrie Folk Fest in Oklahoma," People's World, July 22, 2024.




See also



Genea Brice
Jeremy Snyder
Jacalyn Eyvonne
Kathleen Herrmann
List of municipal poets laureate in California




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