Dan Carr (poet)

Dan Carr (August 24, 1951 – June 26, 2012) was an American poet, type designer, typographer, printer, teacher, punchcutter, environmentalist, human rights activist and New Hampshire State Representative.

He designed four type faces, two for letterpress which he hand cut in the traditional manner: Regulus and Parmenides, and three digital typefaces: Cheneau, Lyons, and Philosophie.

Born in Cranston, Rhode Island, August 24, 1951, Carr studied English Literature and received his BA at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.

In Boston, Massachusetts, in 1979, he and his partner Julia Ferrari started the Golgonooza Letter Foundry & Press, a hot metal monotype graphic design and composition house, which they moved to Ashuelot, New Hampshire, in 1982.

In his first term he successfully sponsored legislation to form a NH Commission on Native American Affairs.