Dargan was born in Newark, New Jersey. He received a Bachelor of Arts from the
University of Virginia and Master of Fine Arts from
Indiana University Bloomington. Dargan's first four poetry collections were published by
University of Georgia Press. His first collection,
The Listening (2004), was the recipient of the
Cave Canem Poetry Prize in 2004. His second collection,
Bouquet of Hungers (2007), was awarded the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in poetry in 2008. "Logorrhea Dementia" was published in 2010 and
Honest Engine was published in 2015. Dargan's fifth book,
Anagnorisis, (
Triquarterly, 2018), won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the
Academy of American Poets in 2018. Dargan is currently an associate professor of literature and the assistant director of creative writing at American University. He is the founder and editor of
POST NO ILLS magazine. Dargan lives in Washington D.C. ==Selected publications==