Rich Villar

Rich Villar is a poet, essayist, and educator originally from Paterson, New Jersey. He is the author of Comprehending Forever (Willow Books, 2014), and his poetry and commentary have appeared on HBO, NPR, and in numerous journals and anthologies. Rich leads poetry workshops and arts integration classrooms in high schools, middle schools, and educative spaces throughout the Northeast; he served as faculty for the Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching in 2016. He is also a founding member of the Títere Poets, a collective of poets dedicated to challenging toxic masculinity within the Latinx community and beyond.

Villar's latest work is anthologized in What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump (Northwestern University Press, forthcoming 2019) and The BreakBeat Poets, Volume 4: LatiNEXT (Haymarket Books, forthcoming 2020). He lives in New Jersey.