Dare Williams is a Queer HIV-positive poet and literary worker rooted in Southern California. A 2019 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow, he has received support and fellowships for his work from the Ashbery Home School, the Frost Place, Brooklyn Poets, Bread Loaf, Tin House, and Vermont Studio Center. His work has been featured in Foglifter, Frontier Poetry, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. Williams is an associate poetry editor at Hooligan Magazine and an MFA student at Warren Wilson College, in North Carolina.
Luminous Gender Vessel
Fall 2023
The Minutes Add Up
The Kenyon Review · “The Minutes Add Up” by Dare Williams Soon it will be June outside, and the wind chimes will swing their lullaby into the dark summer of […]
Luminous Gender Vessel
Fall 2023
Gulp
The Kenyon Review · “Gulp” by Dare Williams I was prepared for you, on the floor, legs wide, ready to receive. The purring pulse hummed at my wrist and knees, […]