iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Dan Vera @danvera.com · 15/04/2026

The penultimate chapter of Main Street features a lovely description of Washington, DC after WW1. After I figured out his addies for his years here, I realized Lewis was basically describing his walk home down 16th street in that chapter! The neighborhood hasn't structurally changed much since. 1/2

dcwritershomes.com

Sinclair Lewis | DC Writers' Homes

100

Reposted by Dan Vera

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 15/04/2026

Just a reminder that JD Vance has been a Catholic for less time than Nacho Fries have been on the Taco Bell menu.

301097266

Reposted by Dan Vera

The Inner Loop @theinnerlooplit.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Come celebrate our 12th anniversary at the April reading event! Join us at Shaw's Tavern on April 21st to hear from our featured reader, Dan Vera, alongside nine other local writers returning to the Inner Loop mic! We cannot wait to commemorate this occasion together! RSVP at the link in bio!

001

Reposted by Dan Vera

Christina Daub @christinadaub.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Say goodnight to every part of my anatomy from “Insomnia” by @greggsha.bsky.social from his book Speaking in Italics, Souvenir Street Books, 2026 @danvera.com #smallpoemsunday #poetry @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Insomnia

In bed, at night, on crisp, patterned sheets,
I dream of sleep. Eyes wide open, body tense as a wire. I count and recount all the sheep
in the yard. Say goodnight to every part
of my anatomy that I can name. I recall
the events of the day, swallow them as if
they were some kind of narcotic, sleeping

potion. Snippets of conversation play over
in my head; edited, polished, grammatically correct. But the words are no lullaby, only manage to keep sleep at bay. As a last-ditch effort, I try to fool sleep. Eyeballs rolled
up, rapidly moving behind eyelids that
snap open like window shades.

1174

Thanks. I forgot Howard and Diane, the two gingkos across the street from each other we named after Nemerov and Arbus.

020

"Ignorance" in New Orleans.

Detailed stone carving of a dog/wolf figure in sandstone

030

Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Should've added New Orleans.

000

Reposted by Dan Vera

Very sad to learn that Biruté Galdikas, world-renowned orangutan researcher, has died. With Jane Goodall (chimps) and Dian Fossey (gorillas) she was one of the Leakey “Trimates,”studying the great apes in the wild. She became a tireless advocate for orangutans and their habitat. #nopalmoil

28526

4 🐺 🐬 Columbo Cheese curls 🐕:Sadie, 🪴: Dizzy, Hannah, Jan Punto Guajiro, Churro (fave that comes to mind)

110

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Don't lose your place.

191

Reposted by Dan Vera

I wish this didn't seem so relevant so often: "In mainstream discourse, it's become standard to blame the excesses of the right on liberals, the left, feminists.... It's a way that the right is granted masculine prerogatives and the left feminine responsibilities for the right's behavior."

meditationsinanemergency.com

The She Made Him Do It Theory of Everything

The rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I've found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Bec...

735469

Reposted by Dan Vera

Peter Montgomery @petemontdc.com · 05/03/2026

More love, please!

021

Dan Vera @danvera.com · 05/03/2026

Thanks!! You at AWP?

000

Dan Vera @danvera.com · 05/03/2026

At least you didn't send it by mimeo.

Washington Writers’ Publishing House @wwph.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Reposted by Dan Vera

Will we be seeing you at #AWP in Baltimore?? We hope so!! And always find us at www.washingtonwriters.org #writers #poets #AWP26 #writingcommunity 💙🌈🏳️‍🌈✍️✍️💕

0146

Dan Vera @danvera.com · 04/03/2026

"These intimate poems are filled with vulnerability, longing, hope, and resilience. They honor queer devotion as a force capable of healing hearts and transforming history through a practice of tenderness rooted in the belief that love can be both sacred act and quiet revolution."

Dan Vera @danvera.com · 04/03/2026

Happy to share the cover of my new book of poems, Celestial Fire: Songs for A Love That Dares, officially out from Beothuk Books in April but appearing at Saints & Sinners in NOLA at the end of the month. Book description below. #poetry #gaypoetry #queerpoetry #lgbtpoetry #latinopoetry #latinxpoetry

Rectangular cover of a portrait oriented book of poems featuring a white banner centered in front of a vibrantly multicolored abstract watercolor. The title of the book, Celestial Fire: Songs For A Love That Dares, is centered in bright red letters on the white field. At the bottom of the cover in white letters against the watercolor are the words, "Poems by Dan Vera"

271

Reposted by Dan Vera

Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

A Salten Urn, Joshua Rothes

XXI

Imagine her face, having kissed her husband’s forehead for the final time, thinking that all skin is dead by the time anyone kisses it.

0143

Dan Vera @danvera.com · 04/03/2026

Oh, my heart breaks for you. A neighbor across from us planted a quince bush that has been an annual Spring joy when in bloom. Its distinct color is part of a sequence (along with dogwood, forsythia, red bud, and pink magnolia) he left when he moved away. Not a great guy TBH, but he left that gift.

Star-shaped lights above the table where we met to share poems. A photo memory from the first year of the LGBTQ Poetry Fellowship at the Arts Club of Washington in 2023. So happy that this project has continued with other poets! #dcpoetry

View from below of a five-pointed lighted chandelier against the background of a white ceiling.. geometric and sparkly.

040

Uff. Great charge in that poem. That closing line! Thanks for sharing it.

110

Seems unfair to the Bardo. (apologies to Groucho)

Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Reposted by Dan Vera

talking about poetry with a group of young people full of imagination and compassion gives me so much joy. and hope.

0222

Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Anyone needing MORE words for last night’s hideous #stateoftheunion (it's almost like @grandiloquentwords.bsky.social planned their words for this week to help us all out!)

Three recent pages from the Grandiloquent Word of the Day calendar, featuring the words Twaddle, gombeen and inaniloquent. Twattle is a verb meaning "to talk much and idly; to gabble, to twaddle." Gombeen is a noun for "A mean, underhanded, corrupt person; usually applied to politicians." and an adjective meaning "corrupt, shady, underhanded." Inaniloquent is an adjective which means "Given to talking insanely; loquacious; garrulous."

020

Reposted by Dan Vera

The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it

983022402

Reposted by Dan Vera

Michelle H. Davis @lonestarleft.com · 13/02/2026

Y’all. OMG. Y’all.

4226

Dan Vera @danvera.com · 15/02/2026

Wow what can't GrokAI do? Shudder.

100

Dan Vera @danvera.com · 09/02/2026

A poem for Carmen Miranda on her birthday, “All Oranges and Bananas Now” from my book Speaking Wiri Wiri ( @redhenpress.bsky.social) #poem #cliophrasis

youtube.com

A poem for Carmen Miranda

YouTube video by Dan Vera

021

Reposted by Dan Vera

Peter Montgomery @petemontdc.com · 09/02/2026

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.

129315

Dan Vera @danvera.com · 09/02/2026

Did I catch a reference to Lolita Lebron in this part? That garble effect did a number on it.