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​Dana Teen Lomax is an award-winning poet, filmmaker, and activist.
A fourth-generation Californian, she lives near Los Angeles.
     ROBO_PO: A Robot Poetry Reading
     "Dear Humans" by Dana Teen Lomax
     University of Sussex, June 29, 2021


     This poetry reading given by a robot was followed by a panel     
     discussion. The robot is Cleo, a Mesmer realistic humanoid     
     robot designed and built by Engineered Arts. This event was
     part of the Centre for Research in Opera and Music Theatre at
     the University of Sussex Robot Opera research project. The
     event took place as part of Robo_Po /// Robo_Op, in June 2021,
     at the Creativity Zone at the University of Sussex and online.
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Published Projects



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A collection of original prose and poetry that ranges from thoughtful to provocative and from experimental to really far-out. Adventurous writings for literary risk-takers and thrill-seekers. —Kirkus Reviews ••• Creative Work Fund Grant Recipient ••• Johns Hopkins University Press Lion & Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Literature

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This courageous and visionary book enacts and embodies a concrete "relational aesthetics" that gives poetic voices an epistolary space — for linguistic intimacy and soul-sharing. Don't miss it! —Cornel West
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Dana Teen Lomax shows her ass and makes you want to kiss it. Bear with me and I’ll explain... —Eileen Tabios

Guerrilla Girls Pick:
​"Best Poetry Books of the Year"

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Dana Teen Lomax's work navigates the vexed relations of life behind the bars of the $$, where gender, race, and class are not merely "discourses" but lived vectors of experience, and where the logic of exchange value mediates that experience to the point where "the $u$pen$e i$ in the death toll$."—David Buuck

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Anthologized Work


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"-the-bigger-picture-" ©2025
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"Vivitocracy" Wesleyan University Press ©2018
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from "Disclosure" Northwestern University Press ©2011


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from "Disclosure" Palm Press ©2010

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"Lullaby" PM Press ©2007

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"Lullaby" and "Lullaby" O Books ©2007


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from "/We" Faux Press ©2006

Chapbooks


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Discrete Pieces


Small Press Traffic kicked off its 50th anniversary year on Janaury 27, 2024 with an evening of dancing, poetry, and prizes. Curated by Noah Ross, Jocelyn Saidenberg, and Robin Tremblay-McGaw, the event features nine poets who served various roles in Small Press Traffic’s development as former directors, organizers, readers, and participants — Norma Cole, Tonya Foster, Samantha Giles, Robert Glück, Owen Hill, Dana Teen Lomax, Camille Roy, Juliana Spahr, and Elizabeth Treadwell (Thomas Dunn reading for Treadwell) — who each selected a poem of their choice by another poet. Dana Teen Lomax reads the work of Myung Mi Kim at SPT's "THE PARTY."

PUBLICATIONS, PERFORMANCES, AND PANELS

2025

excerpts from "-unnamed-relation-," Winter in America (Again), Carbonation Press, 2025
Hive Poetry Collective Radio Show (S7 E4), "-the-bigger-picture-" Winter in America (Again, 2025
excerpts from "-unnamed-relation-," AWP Reading at Cal State LA, Winter in America (Again), Carbonation Press, 2025, Work read by Jill Stengel
excerpts from  Celluloid Poetics Film Chapbook, Vita Arts Open Studio Presentation, Ventura, California

2024
excerpts from Shhh! Poems for a Tired Nation, Poetry Appreciation, ed. Yongbo Ma, China, Summer, 2024

excerpts from "-unnamed-relation-," LAdige Review, "California Poets, Part 7," ed. David Garyan, Italy, July 1, 2024
THE PARTY, Small Press Traffic's 50th Anniversary at 31:50, reading the work of Myung Mi Kim from Commons.

2023  
Shadow and Light Exhibit, curated by Beau Beausoleil
Photograph and poem to Abdel Aziz al Jazem at P21 Gallery London, Pentacrest Museum: University of Iowa, and elsewhere

​2022
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Convenings Grant, THE BEAUTIFUL POETS         
Arion Press Limited Broadside Printing and Featured Reader, “Lullaby” from Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here, 
San Francisco, California
Gualala Arts Exhibit and Reading, THE BEAUTIFUL: Poets Reimagine a Nation
Point Arena Reading Series: Third Thursday hosted by Blake More, Featured Reader via zoom
Disclosure presented at Hybridity in Life Writing: How Text and Images Work Together to Tell a Life, Colloque international, Paris


2021
Poet-in-Residence, Gualala Arts Center  Gualala, California  
excerpt from unnamed relation, American Poetry Review
excerpt from 
unnamed relation Interim (print version)   
excerpt from unnamed relation, Touch the Donkey, Rob Mclennan, Editor
excerpt from unnamed relation, ZaZa
excerpt from unnamed relation, Pi Review

“Dear Humans,” Robo Po, University of Sussex, England (10:27-11:00)
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2020
"Democracy Lessons" submission, Jacket2, November 6 2020
"the-in-between," The Elderly's END CAPITALISM NOW, July 4, 2020, pages 100-102

2019
Featured Artist, What I'm Reading Now, Taurpaulin Sky
Featured Reader, LOBA Reading Series, Ukiah Library, THE BEAUTIFUL
Affordable Housing Happening, Downtown San Rafael, California, Keening and Mourning for Marin
Conference Panelist, NOLA Poetry Festival, New Orleans, Louisiana Black Radish Books, Poets on the Essay
Conference Panelist, AWP Off-site Reading, Daedalus Books, Portland, Oregon, Ekphrasis and the Poet

2018
Conference Panelist, NOLA Poetry Festival, New Orleans, Louisiana Black Radish Books, THE BEAUTIFUL
Conference Panelist, &Now Poetry Festival, Notre Dame University, Notre Dame Indiana,  Counter-Desecration: Critical Making for Catastrophic Times
Conference Panelist, &Now Poetry Festival, Notre Dame University, Notre Dame Indiana,  From Condensary to Essay: A Reading
Conference Panelist, &Now Poetry Festival, Notre Dame University, Notre Dame Indiana,  Anger, Grief, Empathy, and Hope: Remembering Marthe Reed as an Activist and Social Justice Poet

2016
Performer, Small Press Traffic: Poets’ Theater Inside  The Earthquake Palace

2014
Conference Panelist, AWP Conference, Seattle, WA  The Myth of the Inaccessible: Teaching Experimental Poetry in the Community
Guest Lecturer, Columbia University Preparatory School  Avant-garde Poetry in the Classroom
Performer and Curator, Artist Television Access, San Francisco, CA  Femshi: Feminist NeoBenshi 

2012
Conference Panelist, AWP Conference, Chicago, IL  Experiments for the Future: Avant-Garde Poems, Plays, Stories, and Songs for Children

Weekly Podcast from KUSF in Exile, Poet as Radio, edited by Delia Tramontia, Nicholas Leaskou, and Jay Thomas

2011
& Now Conference Panelist, UC San Diego  Toward An Aberrant Future
Featured Reader, San Francisco Beat Museum, Ping Pong! Celebration  Shhh! Poems for a Tired Nation
Conference Panelist, AWP Conference, Washington D.C. Unite!: Acts of Radical Poetic Collaboration
Mentor Poet, Mills College, Oakland  The Writer’s Life

2010
Guest Lecturer, Santa Clara University  Creative Writing & Social Justice
Guest Lecturer, University of San Francisco  Collaboration in Creative Writing
Guest Lecturer, San Francisco School of the Arts  Creative Writing in Response to Crisis
Guest Panelist, San Francisco State University  The Business of Creative Writing
Guest Lecturer, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California  Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here
Guest Panelist, Performing Arts Workshop’s Professional Development Day, San Francisco, California  Gertrude Stein in Juvenile Hall
Conference Panelist, California Poets in the Schools Annual Conference, Petaluma, California  Poetics and Experiment in the Classroom Environment
Featured Reader, Bay Area Video Coalition/San Francisco Poetry  Shhh! Poems for a Tired Nation
Featured Reader, Kokoro Gallery/Flat Earth Collective Reading  Shhh! Poems for a Tired Nation
Featured Reader, Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin County  3 Performance Pieces: Famous, Tired, and Desert

2009
Guest Lecturer, CalArts, Valencia California  Political Poetry & Mentorship
Guest Lecturer, San Francisco Poetry Center  Poetics, Politics, & Community
Guest Lecturer, The New School, New York, New York  Poetics, Politics, & Community
Guest Lecturer, Santa Clara University  Creative Writing & Social Justice
Guest Lecturer, San Francisco School of the Arts  Literature & Experiment
Guest Panelist, San Francisco State University  The Business of Creative Writing
Featured Reader, Canessa Gallery Series, San Francisco, California  Disclosure
Featured Reader, The Poetic Research Bureau, Los Angeles, California  Disclosure

2008
Conference Panelist, AWP Conference, New York, New York  Letters To Poets: Conversations in Poetics, Politics, & Community
Featured Reader, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, California  Curren¢y

2007
Guest Panelist, San Francisco State University  The Business of Creative Writing
Featured Reader, City Lights Books, San Francisco, California  Curren¢y
Featured Reader, San Francisco Poetry Marathon, The  Lab Curren¢y

2006
Featured Reader, St. Mark’s Poetry Project, New York, New York  Curren¢y

2004
Featured Reader, Expression College of New Media, Emeryville, California  The Work of Creative Writing
2003 Featured Reader, Modern Times Bookstore, San Francisco, California  Poets Against the War
Guest Lecturer, Santa Clara University  Poetry & Performance

2002
Featured Reader, Tower Books, Sacramento, California  All the Words on Money

2000
Featured Poet, City Search: Local Howlers, San Francisco, California  Room

1998
Featured Artist, ODC Gallery, San Francisco, California Text for  “Picture Book”

1997
Conference Panelist, Chaparral Valley Poets’ Conference, Empire, California Poets in the Schools 

1995
Featured Reader, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco California  Bachelor Party Poems 

POETRY
Full Length Collections
2020

     THE BEAUTIFUL, Dana Teen Lomax Editor
2014
     Kindergarde: Avant-garde Poems, Plays, Stories, and Songs for Children, Black Radish Books, Dana Teen Lomax Editor
2011
     Disclosure, Black Radish Books
2008
     Curren¢y, Palm Press
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Discrete Poems
2020

   "the-in-between," The Elderly, Anti-Capitalism Issue 
2011
     “Lullaby 17” Eleven Eleven (Nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
     “Lullaby 16” “Lullaby 20” Ping Pong!
     “Lullaby 19” “Lullaby 18” “All Made Up” Delirious Hem
2010
     “Lullaby 12” Poets for Living Waters 
     “Lullaby 11” bone bouquet 
     “Lullaby 15” “Lullaby 7” Dusie Kollektiv #4 
2009 
     “In This Life” Concise Delight 
     “Lullaby & Goodnight” Delirious Hem 
     from “Disclosure” Work Magazine 
     from “Disclosure” Try
2008 

     “Lullaby 8” textsound, Issue #2 
2007 
     “Lullaby 1” 580 Split, Mills College Review 
     “Lullaby 3” 
2005 
     “Lullaby 10” Dusie 
     “In God” sonaweb 
     “We” “Trust” “Legal Tender” mem 
2003 
     “Federal Reserve” Moria, Volume 6, Issue 2 
     “The Great Seal” Shampoo 
     “Of The United States” “Treasury” from “Note” 26 
2000 
     “Meritocracy” 14 Hills 
1999 
     “Public & Private” vert 
1998 
     from “Room” Inscape, Volume iv 
     “Dialogue in Translation” Tripwire 
     “Endemic Lawrence” Outlet 
     “Circuitry” Transfer 76 
1997 
     “Ode to Uncle Doug” Coracle, Volume 3 
     "Autograph #2” Crack 
     “Divided Skin” Convolvulus 
1994 
     “Repositioning” Sonoma Mandala, Volume 20, 1993 
     “Lorena” “Why I Can’t Wait…” “Sleeping With Dean 2:54” Blueline 
     “Sleeping With Dean 3:36” Cape Rock 
     “Untitled” Rock Falls Review “First Aging Poem” Verve 
     “Entitled” 
1993 
     “Race Line” El Andar 
​     “Trust” La Gazette
     “Edgewater” Graffiti #5
     “Ad Lib” Sacred River


ESSAYS
2019
     
Marthe Reed, an unlikely revolutionary, Jacket2, ed. Linda Russo
2012
     Tribute to Daniel Norman Lomax, The Disinhibitor, ed. Michael Cross
2010
     “‘the difficulty’ (the necessity),” Delirious Hem, eds Cara Benson. Elizabeth Bryant, and Cathy Wagner “Childcare from the Avant-garde,” Otoliths, ed.
       Mark Young
2009
     “The Present Moment,” Building is a Process/Light is an Element, eds. Michael Cross and Andrew Rippeon
2007
     “In This Effort,” Every Other Day, ed. Kate Greenstreet
2006
     “A-Reading, Spicer & Eighteen Sonnets,” Traffic, ed. Elizabeth Treadwell

PLAYS
2007
On Wallace Steven’s Bowl, Cat, and Broomstick, Small Press Traffic’s Poets’ Theater Jubilee California College of the Arts, San Francisco, California
2005
Fence/less, 21 Grand Gallery, Oakland, California
2002
Pas de Deux, co-written with Danna Lomax, Small Press Traffic’s Poets’ Theater Jubilee, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, California
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