His four poetry collections are Honest Engine (2015), Logorrhea Dementia (2010), Bouquet of Hungers (2007), and The Listening (2004), all from the University of Georgia Press. His nonfiction has appeared in The Star-Ledger, Ebony and The Root. His work has been awarded the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and he was named one of Washingtonian Magazine’s “Forty Under Forty: Young Washingtonians to Watch.” Dargan serves on the advisory committees of Split This Rock Poetry Festival, The American Poetry Museum, and Torch.