Dara Barrois/Dixon lives and works in western Massachusetts. Born in New Orleans, raised near the mouth of the Mississippi River, she's spent years in the South, Midwest, Southwest, and New England. Her most recent book is Tolstoy Killed Anna Karenina and the chapbooks Two Poems and Nine. Other books include You Good Thing, a Believer's Readers Choice selection and Reverse Rapture, The American Poetry Center's Annual Book Award chosen by Stephen Rodefer. Dara's poems and prose have been supported by the Lannan Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, NEA, and Massachusetts Cultural Council. She formerly published under the name Dara Wier.

Other poems by Dara Barrois/Dixon in Verse Daily:
October 19, 2009:   "Don't Say My Name" "Skull, axis, kernel of focus..."
May 30, 2009:   "The Terrible Poem" "Love lives just sit there on the sidelines...."
October 3, 2006:   "The Italics Are Mine!" " There was breathing but there were no bodies..."
April 9, 2005:  "spur reverie" "(in this phase) (we traveled) (in the dark)..."

Other poems on the web by Dara Barrois/Dixon:
Five poems

Dara Barrois/Dixon's Website.