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

Detailed stone carving of a dog/wolf figure in sandstone

"Ignorance" in New Orleans.

Should've added New Orleans.

Photos of Galdikas.

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

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

Don't lose your place.

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...

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."

More love, please!

Thanks!! You at AWP?

At least you didn't send it by mimeo.

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

"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."

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"

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

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.

A Salten Urn, Joshua Rothes

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.

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

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

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

Seems unfair to the Bardo.
(apologies to Groucho)

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

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."

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!)

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

Y’all. OMG. Y’all.

Wow what can't GrokAI do? Shudder.

A poem for Carmen Miranda YouTube video by Dan Vera

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

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.

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

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! 🔥

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