Author, Poet, Editor, Publisher, Speaker, Minister. Originator and owner of We Write Poetry™ forums and the Pride in Poetry Prize™ and Publication. Husband, Father, Mentor and Friend. Banking Sr Analyst, Tech Editor/Writer.

Visit DE's Beautiful Website for peace and to learn more about his work.

DE Navarro was born in Newport R.I. in 1962, but his family moved to Chicago, Illinois by 1964 where he was raised in the inner city on the Southside until he was ten years old. At ten his family moved to the rural setting of Crown Point, Indiana where he learned to enjoy nature, free to roam in fields of swaying grass and wooded copses rich with ponds and swamps. In 1977, at fifteen, he found himself in the suburban setting of Munster, Indiana where he remained until he went off to college at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Over the years many of his poems and articles were published in various magazines and literary journals.

In his most recent book, Dare to Soar, DE takes us on an amazing poetic journey via 151 intriguing poems and 12 essays, diverse in style, tone, voice, approach and form, to explore self, humanity, the city, country, nature, people, society, life and spirituality. Navarro draws on his eclectic heritage as a city boy, country boy and child of nature to craft thought provoking poetry that looks at existence through a mixture of these perspectives. His endearing styles of wordplay and musical language comes through in both his short, simple, pithy poetry as well as his more complex, language-rich "flowing poetry" or floetry. A short introduction is given in each of the ten sections of the book all working together to support the underlying theme of daring to soar, letting nothing hold you back and reaching beyond the here and now to something that is larger than life itself.