D.L. Lang

D.L. Lang is a contemporary American poet and spoken word artist. The author of over a dozen poetry books, Lang has been writing poetry for over 25 years. She has performed her poetry on stage hundreds of times at protest rallies, county fairs, literary festivals, open mics, poetry circles, bookstores, libraries, and live radio broadcasts. 

From 2017 to 2019 she served as Vallejo, California's Poet Laureate. Her poems have been awarded with numerous county fair ribbons, transformed into songs, used as liturgy for prayer, and to advocate for peace, justice, and a better world. 

The scribe of over 1,200 poems from haiku to free verse to masterful rhyme, covering a wide variety of topics, D.L. Lang has poetry that's sure to delight. Lang dabbles in both gritty realism and surrealistic wordplay, sorrowful elegy and uplifting affirmations. Her poetry is a mixture of topical political commentary, religious devotional meditations, and poetic autobiographical memoir. Her words take you on journeys deep into nature, memory, spirituality, and the whisperings of the heart. ​

Tea & Sprockets: A Modern American Poetry Book

Contemporary Poetry

Tea & Sprockets spans 15 years of work encompassing poems from 1995 to 2010. Across the 150 pages of poems, Lang weaves together themes of love and friendship, death and loss, war and peace. 

Abundant Sparks & Personal Archeology

Contemporary Poetry

Abundant Sparks & Personal Archeology is 162 pages of spiritual, silly, autobiographical poetry. It is the combined volume of two ebooks released originally in 2013. 

Look Ma! No Hands!

Contemporary Poetry

Look Ma! No Hands! is 150 pages of poetry--part fantasy, part autobiography, part prayer book, part honoring my inner child, part Jewish, part hippie, part Oklahoma, part California. 

Poet Loiterer

Contemporary Poetry

Poet Loiterer is a diverse 180-page volume with nature poems, protest poems, spiritual poems, and story poems. ​

Id Biscuits

Contemporary Poetry

Id Biscuits is 200 pages of poetry, with my inner hippie wanderer protester artist well reflected in this book, as it was in my previous work, Poet Loiterer. This could almost be seen as a sequel to that book. It contains topical poetry, autobiographical poems, spiritual poems, and story poems. 

Earthen Rovings: Poems on Mother Nature and the Environment

Contemporary Poetry

Earthen Rovings: Poems on Mother Nature and the Environment contains selections of nature poetry culled from D.L. Lang's full length poetry collections published between 2011 and 2020. This collection is meant to serve as a sampler to those unfamiliar with her work. D.L. Lang is a nature lover who enjoys spending time outside to take walks and absorb the surrounding beauty. She is a poet who often finds herself inspired to write in a wilderness atmosphere, and dreaming of spending time in nature while indoors. A handful of environmentalist poems are also included within these pages. Don’t forget to honor your Mother Earth. 

Paradise Collectors: A Book of Jewish Poetry

Contemporary Poetry

Paradise Collectors is a 75 page compilation of Jewish themed poetry, featuring poems inspired by Judaism, Jewish holidays, and Jewish practice from D.L. Lang’s previous books and a few new additions. Includes “Turning” previously published on ReformJudaism.org, “Prayer for the Shomrim” previously published in the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles, and “Is” previously published in the Marin Poetry Center anthology Vol 21, and winner of 3rd place at the 2019 Solano County Fair.

Wanderings: Selected Poems by D.L. Lang

Contemporary Poetry

Wanderings is a chapbook featuring a small sampling of poetry previously published in D.L. Lang’s full length poetry collections. D.L Lang served as the 2017-2019 Poet Laureate of Vallejo, California. It includes award-winning poems that have received ribbons or rosettes at county fairs. It contains poems inspired by Oklahoma, the San Francisco Bay Area, Judaism, and a few of her other favorites selected from her first 9 volumes of poetry.

Barefoot in the Sanctuary

Contemporary Poetry

Barefoot in the Sanctuary is a volume of poetry inspired by long hikes out in the wilderness, spiritual experiences with my synagogue community, and artistic absorption of the tumultuous times we live in. It is D.L. Lang's 7th poetry book.

Armor Against The Dawn

Contemporary Poetry

Armor Against The Dawn is D.L. Lang's 8th book, largely comprised of topical poetry written in response to current events, politics, and the experience of local protests.

Dragonfly Tomorrows & Dog-Eared Yesterdays

Contemporary Poetry

Dragonfly Tomorrows & Dog-Eared Yesterdays is D.L. Lang's 9th poetry collection. It is comprised of over 100 pages of inspirational, personal, fictional, and political poetry.

Resting on my Laurels

Contemporary Poetry

Resting on my Laurels contains poetry written, performed, and published during D.L. Lang's tenure as the 2nd Poet Laureate of Vallejo in addition to other never before seen poems.

The Cafe of Dreams

Contemporary Poetry

The Cafe of Dreams is D.L. Lang's 11th poetry book containing poetry written between April and August 2018. It is a mixture of autobiographical, spiritual, political, and nature poetry. It features the award winning poems “The 7 Words You Cannot Say in a ‘Free’ Country”, “Is”, “Forest Whisperings”, “The Woodpecker’s Beat”, and “Laugh With Me” and several selections written for events during D.L. Lang's tenure as Poet Laureate of Vallejo, California including "Vallejo Together," "Why Poetry Matters," and "Time Unkept.”

Midnight Strike

Contemporary Poetry

Midnight Strike is a diverse collection of hard hitting protest poetry and other poems written and performed during D.L. Lang’s tenure as the 2nd poet laureate of Vallejo, California. Midnight Strike features Jewish poems such as “Turning” first published in on ReformJudaism.org, political poetry such as the entire 36 verses of “A Blessing for the Women Who Pray With Their Feet” written for the 2019 Vallejo Women’s Summit, and other selections written between September 2018 and July 2019.

This Festival of Dreams

Contemporary Poetry

This Festival of Dreams is D.L. Lang's 13th poetry book, containing 78 new poems, primarily written between July 2019 and April 2020. This volume also contains “No Other Planet” which first appeared on Poetry Expressed, Vol 5, Spring 2020, “What Remains is Love” which was first printed in the Benicia Herald, “A Thousand Per Day” which first appeared on Frost Meadow Review‘s Pandemic Poetry site, and the ekphrastic poems “A Dog’s Perspective,” “The Seeker,” and “Labor Makes the World Go Round.” written for events in Solano County.