Diana Lucille Lang

Background

Ethnicity: Mother has German heritage. Father has English, Irish, Scottish, Swedish, and Choctaw heritage.

D.L. Lang was born in Bad Hersfeld, West Germany in 1983. She lived in Herleshausen, Germany, Santa Fe, Texas, Alexandria, Louisiana, and Enid, Oklahoma during her childhood.

Education

D.L. Lang attended Alexandria Country Day School and Enid Public Schools as a child. She earned undergraduate degrees from Northern Oklahoma College and the University of Oklahoma.

Career

D.L. Lang worked as a video editor for television station KXOK in Enid, OK, a webmaster for TV4OU and the Wire in Norman, OK, and produced documentaries and music videos for PEGASYS in Enid, OK. She edited the films Liquid Wind, the Hebrew Project, and several music videos for Greg "Grey" Perkins. She was awarded Producer of the Year in 2004 and 2005 and Best Editor in 2002 by PEGASYS, and won Best Student Music Video and Best Film Trailer from the Bare Bones Film Festival. She held several office jobs as day jobs in her twenties.

Lang began publishing her poetry in 2011. Her debut poetry e-book Tea & Sprockets was downloaded over 1500 times. Lang was named poet laureate of Vallejo, California in 2017 and served for two years and four months. She co-founded the Vallejo Poetry Society in 2018. Lang has given nearly 500 public performances since 2015 at festivals, libraries, bookstores, demonstrations, and radio broadcasts.

Her haiku "Hope of All People" is archived at the Woody Guthrie Center after winning a spot in the 2023 Tulsa Curbside Haiku contest. Lang is a member of the Revolutionary Poets Brigade and a four time Woody Guthrie Poet. She has won over 45 county fair ribbons for her writing. She has been recognized with proclamations by the Vallejo mayor and city council for her activism, her writing, and her service as poet laureate. The California Legislature, Solano County, and California Arts Council have also formally recognized her work. Her poem "American Dream" is archived on the moon as part of the Lunar Codex.

Her work has been anthologized over 100 times by over 50 different publishers across 4 continents, 10 countries and in 18 different US states. She has authored 18 books and edited 3 literary anthologies. Her poetry has been published in newspapers, literary journals, and transformed into songs.

Works

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  • Armor Against The Dawn

    (ISBN-13: ‎978-1540704993)

    2016
  • Tea & Sprockets

    (ISBN 978-1467900379)

    2011
  • Look, Ma! No Hands!

    (ISBN 978-1511726504)

    2015
  • Poet Loiterer

    (ISBN 978-1518713248)

    2016
  • Id Biscuits

    (ISBN 978-1530453054)

    2016
  • Dragonfly Tomorrows & Dog-eared Yesterdays

    (ISBN 978-1548437725)

    2017
  • Midnight Strike

    (ISBN 978-1072096016)

    2019
  • This Festival of Dreams

    (ISBN 979-8642242759)

    2020
  • Heaven is Portable

    (ISBN 979-8516440311)

    2022
  • Fighting the Solar System

    (ISBN 979-8334584426)

    2024
  • Cavorting Havoc

    (ISBN 979-8282021707)

    2025
  • Wanderings 2.0: The Journey and the Destinations

    (ISBN 979-8877591356)

    2024
  • Paradise Collectors: A Book of Jewish Poetry

    (ISBN 979-8872502203)

    2023
  • Abundant Sparks & Personal Archeology

    (ISBN 9781511726665)

    2015
  • Barefoot in the Sanctuary

    (ISBN 9781536820263)

    2016
  • Resting on my Laurels

    (ISBN 9781983939778)

    2018
  • The Cafe of Dreams

    (ISBN 9781727159806)

    2018
  • Earthen Rovings: Poems on Mother Nature and the Environment

    (ISBN 9798647153074)

    2020

Religion

Lang grew up in a Christian household. She converted to Reform Judaism in 2010.

Politics

Lang has supported women’s rights, workers’ rights, immigrants’ rights, anti-racism, and other social causes by performing poetry at demonstrations and writing for numerous left-leaning organizations and publications. She has written articles as a journalist for People's World and People's Tribune.

Views

D.L. Lang believes in human rights, peace, justice, equality, and making the world a better place.

Quotations: "It's a pretty low bar to ask public servants to not be a f—ing Nazi" - D.L. Lang quoted in the Daily Kos

Personality

Quotes from others about the person

• D.L. Lang helps carry the banner for social change to create the loving world we all want… — Nina Serrano
  
  D.L. Lang’s poems harken back to the promise of the 1960s revived in the 2020s. — Daniel Yaryan
  
  An ingenious visionary…Lang makes writing poetry seem effortless… — Realistic Poetry International
  
  Such pieces leap off the page and demand to be read aloud to release their crackling energy. — Kirkus Reviews
  
  At least one former poet laureate, D.L. Lang, can accurately be described as out of this world. — Vallejo Times Herald

Connections

She is married and has no children.

References

• D.L. Lang: California Poets Part 8, Two Poems
  2025
• A Fevers of the Mind QUick-10 Interview with D.L. Lang – Fevers of the Mind
  2024
• Interview with D.L. LANG
  2021