My main reading venue is through the
Brookland Area Writers & Artists* (BAWA*).
We hold monthly poetry readings the
second Wednesday of each month on a variety of themes.
For more information visit the BAWA* website

August 2008
Wednesday, August 20th at 7:30 pm

THREE POET BILL at the Intersections Reading Series
Three Gay Poets: Francisco Aragon, Gregg Shapiro & Dan Vera
Curated by Fred Joiner and Sponsored by the American Poetry Museum
Location TBA • Washington, DC

September 2008

Wednesday, September at 7:00 pm
"A Space Inside" Reading Series
Michael Gushue & Dan Vera Reading Poetry

Riverby Books on Capitol Hill
417 East Capitol Street • Washington, DC
202-543-4342
Riverby Books website

Download poster in (PDF format)

October 2008

October 15-19, 2008
Atlanta Queer Literary Fest
Reading and Presenting
Atlanta, Georgia
www.atlqueerlitfest.com

2008 Readings

March 16 - 4 pm
Split This Rock Festival Reading sponsored by Beltway Poetry Quarterly.
Featured readers: Winona Addison, Naomi Ayala, Teri Ellen Cross,
Yael Flusberg, Tanya Snyder, Dan Vera, Rosemary Winslow, and Kathi Wolfe.
Followed by open mic.

Busboys and Poets
14th & V Streets, NW, DC.
Free Admission, although contributions are gratefully accepted.
Guest hosts: Kim Roberts and Regie Cabico.

2007 Readings

Monday, October 1 - 8 pm
Featured Poet at Busboys & Poets Shirlington
BUSBOYS & POETS
Read in the Paul Robeson Room
4251 So. Campbell Avenue - Arlington, VA 22206
(703) 379-9756

Saturday, June 10
The Triangle Artists Group presents
QUEERING SOUND 07
[ DIS LO CA TION : SUBVERTING CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS] website
Saturday 02 June : 8 PM
Warehouse Next Door :
1021 7th Street NW : Washington DC 20001 : USA
Seventh installment of acclaimed sound, video + spoken word event
offered a continued program of the provocative, the experimental, and the cutting edge
The room used to be filled with words...
The seventh installment of Queering Sound again gathered together local, national
and international artists - with a non-exclusive curatorial focus towards gay, lesbian
and post-gender-identified participants - who explore alternative avenues of expression
through sound, the digital arts, noise, and spoken word. The music performance space
of the Warehouse complex will host both established and upcoming local talents
as well as serve to introduce Washington audiences to new sounds and visions
from across the globe through digital contributions.
LIVE PERFORMERS + DIGITAL CONTRIBUTORS
Arthur Loves Plastic [ DIGITAL CONTRIBUTOR ] BLK w/ BEAR [ LIVE PERFORMER ]
R H Bear [ LIVE PERFORMER ] Fabiano Cueva & María Teresa Ponce [ DIGITAL CONTRIBUTORS ]
J R Logan [ LIVE PERFORMER ] Nick Lopata [ DIGITAL CONTRIBUTOR ]
Marc Manning [ DIGITAL CONTRIBUTOR ] Minibloc [ DIGITAL CONTRIBUTORS ]
Northern Machine [ LIVE PERFORMERS ] Doug Poplin [ LIVE PERFORMER ]
Renee Shaw aka VJ Poppins [ LIVE PERFORMER ] P D Sexton [ LIVE PERFORMER ]
Ultra-red [ DIGITAL CONTRIBUTORS ] Dan Vera [ LIVE PERFORMER ]
Washington Blade: Best Bet
Washington Post: “Can’t Miss” Event

2006 Readings

June 3, 2006
Brookland Writers Celebrate Brookland Artists I
with poems by Sterling A. Brown & other Brookland Artists
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
The Graham Collection
3518 Twelfth Street NE
(Between Monroe and Newton Streets, NE)

June 10, 2006
The Triangle Artists Group presents
QUEERING SOUND 06 [ ECHO + DECAY ]
Saturday 10 June : 7 PM
Warehouse Next Door : 1017 7th Street NW : Washington DC : USA

Sixth installment of acclaimed sound + spoken word event offers
a continued program of the provocative, the experimental, and the cutting edge
The sixth installment of Queering Sound again gathers together local, national and
international artists - with a non-exclusive curatorial focus towards gay, lesbian
and post-gender-identified participants - who explore alternative avenues of expression
through sound, the digital arts, noise, and spoken word. The music performance space
of the Warehouse complex will host both established and upcoming local talents as well
as serve to introduce Washington audiences to new sounds and visions from across the
globe through digital contributions. Compact discs, recordings, and other merchandise
from contributors and performers will also be available for sale.
LIVE PERFORMERS + DIGITAL CONTRIBUTORS include: Arthur Loves Plastic;
BLK w/ BEAR; R H Bear of BILE [NYC]; Everything is Fine : Heavy Lids :
Marc Joseph Manning [Portland OR]; FEEDBACKACKACK! [Pittsburgh PA];
Douglas Graves [Nomadic Sound Bear]; J R Logan; Nick Lopata; Nowhereians [UK];
Doug Poplin; QIER : Queer Institute of Ersatz Research; DC Radical Faeries;
Ginger Richards of Federal City Five and The Hall Monitors; Tim Sheetz :
J-Lo-Fi; Ethan Shoshan [NYC]; and Dan Vera.

Washington Blade: Best Bet
Washington Post: “Can’t Miss” Event

June 18, 2006
Sunday Kind of Love
A Reading to Celebrate Gay Pride Month
Sunday, June 18th - 4:00 - 6:00 PM
Busboys & Poets (Langston Room)
2021 14th Street NW
Featuring poets Barbara Orton, Venus Thrash,
Dan Vera, and Tim'm West.
Presented by Kathi Wolfe.
The Poets:
+ Barbara Orton's poems appear in two anthologies, The New Young American Poets and New Voices,
and are forthcoming in a third, Under the Rock Umbrella. Her work also appears in a Web chapbook
published by The Literary Review and in journals including Ploughshares, 32 Poems, and The Innisfree Poetry Journal.
+ Venus Thrash received a BA in Literature and an MFA in Creative Writing from American University.
She received the Myra Sklarew Award in Fiction. She is a Cave Canem, Lannan, and Soul Mountain Fellow.
Her short story Cast Away Stones is to be published in the forthcoming anthology Enhanced Gravity.
Her poetry has appeared in Gargoyle and Catalyst, and in the recently released poetry anthology Gathering Ground.
She is currently at work on a short story collection, The Soul of a Man, and a novel, Hole.
+ Dan Vera bio
+ Tim'm T. West is an author/publisher, poet, emcee, and activist who in 1999 co-founded
Deep Dickollective, the black queer rap outfit known for their lyrical middle fingers to Hip Hop enthusiasts
who would prefer to pretend that there are no queers in the cipher. In 2003 he released a critically acclaimed
poetic memoir Red Dirt Revival, in 2005 a chapbook BARE, and is preparing for the forthcoming
Red Dirt Publishing release of Flirting. Musically, he released his solo debut, Songs from Red Dirt
on Cellular Records, and is working on the release of Blakkboy Blue(s) its highly anticipated follow up.
Tim'm currently teaches English at Cesar Chavez Public Charter High School for Public Policy
here in the District of Columbia.

Hosted by Sarah Browning, Coordinator of D.C. Poets Against the War.