Dan Vera
@danvera.com
Washington, DC —poet| poetry foundation bit.ly/40tituc , editor, literary historian, 📚: Speaking Wiri Wiri (Red Hen) & co-editor, Imaniman: Poets at the (Gloria) Anzaldúan Borderlands (Aunt Lute). Quilt & watercolor. danvera.com
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Dan Vera
@danvera.com
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"The Borders Are Fluid Within Us" by Dan Vera | A Visual Poem
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This gorgeous film based on my poem, "The Borders Are Fluid Within Us" is from the 2019 gathering of the Resnick Aspen Action Forum, read by global fellows of the forum.
A poem for Carmen Miranda on her birthday, “All Oranges and Bananas Now” from my book Speaking Wiri Wiri ( @redhenpress.bsky.social) #poem #cliophrasis
A poem for Carmen Miranda
YouTube video by Dan Vera
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February 9, 2026 at 9:25 PM
A poem for Carmen Miranda on her birthday, “All Oranges and Bananas Now” from my book Speaking Wiri Wiri ( @redhenpress.bsky.social) #poem #cliophrasis
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Far-right Christian nationalist pastor Dale Partridge has some thoughts about Bad Bunny's halftime show. Well, thoughts may be too generous. He has a reaction.
February 9, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Far-right Christian nationalist pastor Dale Partridge has some thoughts about Bad Bunny's halftime show. Well, thoughts may be too generous. He has a reaction.
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There are US states where professors could be fired for walking their students thru a critical analysis of the Bad Bunny halftime show.
February 9, 2026 at 2:47 AM
There are US states where professors could be fired for walking their students thru a critical analysis of the Bad Bunny halftime show.
Was that Bad Bunny Lebron reference to Lolita or James? That section right after LO QUE LE PASÓ A HAWAii, makes me believe it was Lolita Lebron, which would be astonishing! 🔥
February 9, 2026 at 3:04 AM
Was that Bad Bunny Lebron reference to Lolita or James? That section right after LO QUE LE PASÓ A HAWAii, makes me believe it was Lolita Lebron, which would be astonishing! 🔥
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40 members of the audience
were treated for hypertension.
20 year old dark haired beauties found their heads
had turned a Moses White.
From: Emily Dickinson at the Poetry Slam
By @danvera.com
Read by @zigzackly.bsky.social
were treated for hypertension.
20 year old dark haired beauties found their heads
had turned a Moses White.
From: Emily Dickinson at the Poetry Slam
By @danvera.com
Read by @zigzackly.bsky.social
January 3, 2026 at 5:52 PM
40 members of the audience
were treated for hypertension.
20 year old dark haired beauties found their heads
had turned a Moses White.
From: Emily Dickinson at the Poetry Slam
By @danvera.com
Read by @zigzackly.bsky.social
were treated for hypertension.
20 year old dark haired beauties found their heads
had turned a Moses White.
From: Emily Dickinson at the Poetry Slam
By @danvera.com
Read by @zigzackly.bsky.social
Reposted by Dan Vera
honestly about as big of a psychospiritual fuck you to ICE as i can imagine
February 9, 2026 at 1:34 AM
honestly about as big of a psychospiritual fuck you to ICE as i can imagine
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The Americas is going to have every sorry ass pundit trying to write something negative but hey that was correct
February 9, 2026 at 1:37 AM
The Americas is going to have every sorry ass pundit trying to write something negative but hey that was correct
“We create — poems and paintings, stories and songs — to find a language for the bewilderment of being alive, the failure of it, the fullness of it, and to have lived fully is not to have spared yourself.”
Astonishing loveliness in @mariapopova.bsky.social essay on AI. h/t @jenbenka.bsky.social
Astonishing loveliness in @mariapopova.bsky.social essay on AI. h/t @jenbenka.bsky.social
"AI may never be able to write a great poem — a truly original poem — because a poem is made not of language but of experience, and the defining aspect of human experience is the constant collision between our wishes and reality..." —@mariapopova.bsky.social www.themarginalian.org/2025/07/07/s...
Uncoding Creativity in the Age of AI: What Makes a Great Poem, What Makes a Great Storyteller, and What Makes Us Human
I once asked ChatGPT to write a poem about a total solar eclipse in the style of Walt Whitman. It returned a dozen couplets of cliches that touched nothing, changed nothing in me. The AI had the wh…
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July 13, 2025 at 1:48 PM
“We create — poems and paintings, stories and songs — to find a language for the bewilderment of being alive, the failure of it, the fullness of it, and to have lived fully is not to have spared yourself.”
Astonishing loveliness in @mariapopova.bsky.social essay on AI. h/t @jenbenka.bsky.social
Astonishing loveliness in @mariapopova.bsky.social essay on AI. h/t @jenbenka.bsky.social
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Sarah Schulman in The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity on two of the qualities that made ACT UP effective: it “was not a consensus-based movement” and “went action first, not theory first”
July 13, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Sarah Schulman in The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity on two of the qualities that made ACT UP effective: it “was not a consensus-based movement” and “went action first, not theory first”
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If you’re the kind of person who easily forgets what you’ve accomplished, you need a practice for reminding yourself. Count the years, the finished projects, the progress, the praise, count it all up and use it as evidence against the ever present criticism in your head that you’re not doing enough.
December 27, 2024 at 4:51 PM
If you’re the kind of person who easily forgets what you’ve accomplished, you need a practice for reminding yourself. Count the years, the finished projects, the progress, the praise, count it all up and use it as evidence against the ever present criticism in your head that you’re not doing enough.
"At a time where the government's uncaring boot is pressing down on all of our necks, the best way to fight back is to care. Care loudly. Tell others. Get going.”
This piece by @dansinker.com on our present "Who Cares" era is astonishing.
dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
This piece by @dansinker.com on our present "Who Cares" era is astonishing.
dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
The Who Cares Era | dansinker.com
dansinker.com
July 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
"At a time where the government's uncaring boot is pressing down on all of our necks, the best way to fight back is to care. Care loudly. Tell others. Get going.”
This piece by @dansinker.com on our present "Who Cares" era is astonishing.
dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
This piece by @dansinker.com on our present "Who Cares" era is astonishing.
dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
search drinks in your camera roll. Random 4.
I recall #1 as a tasty cortado from Oak Cliff Coffee and #2 being a concoction we named “Scalia’s Tears“ after a good SCOTUS ruling (those were the days).
I recall #1 as a tasty cortado from Oak Cliff Coffee and #2 being a concoction we named “Scalia’s Tears“ after a good SCOTUS ruling (those were the days).
July 10, 2025 at 1:14 AM
search drinks in your camera roll. Random 4.
I recall #1 as a tasty cortado from Oak Cliff Coffee and #2 being a concoction we named “Scalia’s Tears“ after a good SCOTUS ruling (those were the days).
I recall #1 as a tasty cortado from Oak Cliff Coffee and #2 being a concoction we named “Scalia’s Tears“ after a good SCOTUS ruling (those were the days).
A nice crepe shop called HOI PLOYES.
July 10, 2025 at 12:59 AM
A nice crepe shop called HOI PLOYES.
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$10 billion. Every hurricane season.
The **entirety** of NOAA requested $6.6 billion in FY25. Or 66% of those estimated costs of hurricanes (thus excluding their efforts to also monitor/warn/research flash floods or droughts or wildfires or severe weather or fisheries or tsunamis or solar flares).
The **entirety** of NOAA requested $6.6 billion in FY25. Or 66% of those estimated costs of hurricanes (thus excluding their efforts to also monitor/warn/research flash floods or droughts or wildfires or severe weather or fisheries or tsunamis or solar flares).
According Dr. Robert Atlas, the elimination of NOAA's AOML as proposed in their 2026 budget would result in a 20-40% decrease in hurricane forecast accuracy, costing the economy an estimated $10 billion each hurricane season. Sobering numbers on what's at stake.
July 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
$10 billion. Every hurricane season.
The **entirety** of NOAA requested $6.6 billion in FY25. Or 66% of those estimated costs of hurricanes (thus excluding their efforts to also monitor/warn/research flash floods or droughts or wildfires or severe weather or fisheries or tsunamis or solar flares).
The **entirety** of NOAA requested $6.6 billion in FY25. Or 66% of those estimated costs of hurricanes (thus excluding their efforts to also monitor/warn/research flash floods or droughts or wildfires or severe weather or fisheries or tsunamis or solar flares).
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Your poem makes me think of my father who escaped the Communist revolution in China as a child to come to this country. From a Maoist dictatorship to freedom. Your poem brings me to the 1600s when my mother’s ancestors arrived on a ship fleeing an English tyrant. Thank you for sharing your poem! 🪷
June 13, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Your poem makes me think of my father who escaped the Communist revolution in China as a child to come to this country. From a Maoist dictatorship to freedom. Your poem brings me to the 1600s when my mother’s ancestors arrived on a ship fleeing an English tyrant. Thank you for sharing your poem! 🪷
Strawberry Rhubarb Pie #piesofbluesky #PIE
June 11, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Strawberry Rhubarb Pie #piesofbluesky #PIE
Jewels of Strawberry High Season in Pennsylvania. Bought these 2 quarts from a kid *literally* just walking out of the 🍓 patch. #strawberry
June 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Jewels of Strawberry High Season in Pennsylvania. Bought these 2 quarts from a kid *literally* just walking out of the 🍓 patch. #strawberry
Delighted to see my poem "Lingering Fraction" about the Stonewall Riots in Tribes Magazine's A GATHERING OF OUR PRIDE Issue. My thanks to @tribesorg.bsky.social @regie.bsky.social
www.tribes.org/a-gathering-... #poetry #pride Check out poems by my 🏳️🌈 AIR confreres at Link in 1st comment below⬇️⬇️
www.tribes.org/a-gathering-... #poetry #pride Check out poems by my 🏳️🌈 AIR confreres at Link in 1st comment below⬇️⬇️
Dan Vera — A Gathering of the Tribes
Lingering Fraction “Some homosexuals claim infallibility in identifying others of their kind ‘by the eyes—there’s a look that lingers a fraction of a second too long.’” “Growth o...
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June 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Delighted to see my poem "Lingering Fraction" about the Stonewall Riots in Tribes Magazine's A GATHERING OF OUR PRIDE Issue. My thanks to @tribesorg.bsky.social @regie.bsky.social
www.tribes.org/a-gathering-... #poetry #pride Check out poems by my 🏳️🌈 AIR confreres at Link in 1st comment below⬇️⬇️
www.tribes.org/a-gathering-... #poetry #pride Check out poems by my 🏳️🌈 AIR confreres at Link in 1st comment below⬇️⬇️
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the thing about “bread and circuses” is that you’re not supposed to double the price of bread and then become the circus
June 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
the thing about “bread and circuses” is that you’re not supposed to double the price of bread and then become the circus
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Great new Latino poetry anthology celebrated at MLK Library in DC with poets: @danvera.com @elizabethacevedo.bsky.social and others! #libraries #poetry
April 25, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Great new Latino poetry anthology celebrated at MLK Library in DC with poets: @danvera.com @elizabethacevedo.bsky.social and others! #libraries #poetry
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Great panel of writers, all included in the Library of America Latino Anthology, last night at MLK Library in DC. Thoughtful and inspiring. @danvera.com @alexlregalado.bsky.social @fjaragon2025.bsky.social
April 24, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Great panel of writers, all included in the Library of America Latino Anthology, last night at MLK Library in DC. Thoughtful and inspiring. @danvera.com @alexlregalado.bsky.social @fjaragon2025.bsky.social
Came back from #AWP25 with a number of new books including Didi Jackson's "My Infinity." It was a real pleasure signing with her at the @redhenpress.bsky.social table, but today I've been enjoying her numinous poems. Even read a few aloud to the husband (always the mark of a good book IMO).
April 2, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Came back from #AWP25 with a number of new books including Didi Jackson's "My Infinity." It was a real pleasure signing with her at the @redhenpress.bsky.social table, but today I've been enjoying her numinous poems. Even read a few aloud to the husband (always the mark of a good book IMO).