Dargan is currently an associate professor of literature and the assistant director of creative writing at American University, as well as Books Editor for the Wondaland Arts Society.

[1] 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.

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.