Richard Villar

Richard Villar is a poet, educator, and curator originally from Paterson, New Jersey. He is the author of Comprehending Forever (Willow Books, 2014) and his poems are anthologized most recently in What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump (Curbstone/Northwestern University Press, 2019), and The BreakBeat Poets, Volume 4: LatiNEXT (Haymarket Books, 2020). He was a 2020 New Jersey State Arts Council Fellow and is a mentor and program coordinator for the NYU Prison Education Program.