D.L. Lang

In 2020 she was a featured act at the Solano County Virtual Fair, and judged the library's teen poetry competition. In 2021 she performed virtually for Poetry Flash and Point Arena Third Thursday Poetry. She also performed with Brice and Snyder at Alibi Bookshop, and for the Jewish Democrats of Solano County. In 2022 she performed for the AAUW, Solano County Library, San Francisco Public Library, a beat poetry festival at the Empress Theatre, the abortion rights group RiseUp4AbortionRights, the Beat Museum and LaborFest with the Revolutionary Poets Brigade, judged the Solano library's teen poetry competition, and appeared on the Rooted in Poetry podcast.

D.L. Lang was appointed Poet Laureate of Vallejo, California in September 2017 and served through December 2019. As poet laureate Lang edited the poetry anthology Verses, Voices & Visions of Vallejo and performed 141 times in 18 different cities. Lang gave the invocation at the 2019 Vallejo Women's March. During her tenure she also performed her poetry at many local events, including Vallejo Unites Against Hatred, Unity Day, International Peace Day and Why Poetry Matters. Lang also gave a presentation on Emma Lazarus and Alicia Ostriker for AAUW Voices of Change. Lang also judged seven contests including the county Poetry Out Loud high school recitation competition, Joel Fallon poetry scholarship, Solano County Fair talent competition, Vallejo poetry slam, and county library teen writing competition. She performed regularly on air on KZCT and on stage at Poetry by the Bay. Like her predecessor, she led the Poetry in Notion poetry circle and hosted annual events for National Poetry Month. She attended poets laureate conferences in Tujunga and San Mateo. Lang was preceded as Vallejo's poet laureate by Genea Brice, and succeeded by Jeremy Snyder, host of Poetry by the Bay.

Lang began writing poetry as a child, first attempting to write song lyrics. She cites Dan Nichols, The Beatles, Pete Seeger, Allen Ginsberg, Jim Morrison, and Bob Dylan as influences. In addition to writing about her life, Lang writes on themes of Judaism, social justice, political protest, feminism, anti-capitalism, anti-racism and pacifism. Lang began performing her poetry in 2015, following a debut reading at her synagogue. Her poems have been published in newspapers, journals, and anthologies.

Diana Lucille Lang (née Kettle) was born in Bad Hersfeld, West Germany. As a result of growing up in a military family as a child Lang relocated frequently, residing in Herleshausen, West Germany, Santa Fe, Texas, Alexandria, Louisiana, and Enid, Oklahoma. Lang graduated from Enid High School in 2001, received an Associate of Science in General Studies at Northern Oklahoma College, and obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Film Studies with a minor in Judaic Studies from the University of Oklahoma. After college she moved to California in 2005 and married Timothy Lang in 2006, living in San Rafael, California prior to moving to Vallejo.

D.L. Lang (born 1983, Bad Hersfeld, West Germany) is an American poet. She has published twelve full-length books of poetry, and served as the Poet Laureate of Vallejo, California.