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Assistant Professor of Poetry @LSUCWprogram | poems in @NewYorker @AmPoetryReview @nycballet

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Ariel Francisco πŸ‡©πŸ‡΄πŸ‡¬πŸ‡Ή
@AriCisco
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Tw: stalking, harassment, manipulation, abuse, threats of self harm, threats of s*icide No, this isn't a manuscript, this is 100's of harassing and stalking texts and emails from someone who has been terrorizing me for years now
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Nicanor Parra (translated by Patricio Lerzundi and Lynne Van Voorhis)
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β€œthe heart is the smaller cousin of the sun” β€”Joy Harjo
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Still unbelievable to me but I’ve officially accepted a full time tenure track position at LSU as an Assistant Professor of Poetry! All my gratitude to @FIU_MFA , @QCMFA , all my friends, my incredible teachers, and every editor who ever championed my poems ❀️
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Can’t sleep so I updated the statue of liberty poem in response to the vp’s comments in Guatemala today
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Editing πŸ‘€
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β€œI know a poem is done when it stops bothering me” β€”Mary Ruefle
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MartΓ­n Espada
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Been sitting on this for a bit but so honored an excited to have won the @POETSorg Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize! Will be the poem-a-day this Saturday πŸ‘€, an actual dream
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In honor of #EarthDay today, we're pleased to announce the 2021 winners of the Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize: Ariel Francisco @AriCisco , Leah Naomi Green, and Brittney Corrigan @brittneycm . Their poems will be published in #PoemADay . @info_treehouse
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making some final edits, can’t wait for y’all to read this in the spring πŸ‘€
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Book 4, fall 2024 πŸ‘€πŸ™πŸ½
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You don't know how excited I am to finally share the cover of my new collection! This is my favorite photo of me and my dad, taken by my mom πŸ˜… Much love to @VidaurreEdward & @FlowerSongPress for giving this book a home ❀️ You can preorder it here:
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Grateful to start the new year by being back in the pages of @NewYorker ! This is about as close as I can get to admitting I miss Florida
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β€œBaton Bleu”

β€œWinter’s revelation is always the same: / longing.”

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A small poem from my recent book, after one of my favorites, Alejandra Pizarnik
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Victor Hernandez Cruz
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MartΓ­n Espada
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Pleasant surprise in the mail! Finally got my hard copy lol πŸ€“πŸ¦©
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One of my lifelong goals is to translate a book of poetry from every Spanish speaking country. Got Colombia and Guatemala so far with the DR, Bolivia, and Chile in the pipeline πŸ‘€ Might take me till I'm 80 but I'm gonna do it
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Copies arrived! So excited to have this book out in the world! ❀️
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Alejandra Pizarnik (translated by Suzanne Jill Levine)
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Moved on 8/1, don’t get paid till 9/21, got me missing that nyc dollar slice right now
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home office finally coming together πŸ™πŸΌ
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Teaching literary translation this semester. Thrilled, nervous, lucky πŸ™πŸΌ
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For any Latinx poets looking to find a home for their first collection! No submission fee, deadline 3/15!
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β€œthe effort of forgetting/ is also poetry” β€”Humberto Ak’abal
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feel tremendously lucky to have four poems in the new issue of Paperbag Magazine. Here’s one of them, for my grandmother who I never got to meet, and for my dad. You can read the whole issue here:
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Back to where it all started! Excited as hell to have this new chapbook coming with @glass_poetry ! Can't wait to share it with you all
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🚨 🚨 COVER REVEAL!! 🚨 🚨 @AriCisco returns with his second Glass chapbook, Every Morning Now I Wake Up With a Mouth Full of Blood!! And, seriously, you don't want to miss out on this collection!
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Rafael Alberti (translated from Spanish by Mark Strand)
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Carlie Hoffman
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still thinking about the VP’s words. Here’s a poem I translated by Guatemalan poet Luis de Lion who, like thousands of others, was detained and disappeared in 1984 by a military government that had just received $33 million from the US, whoops
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Donald Justice
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Martin Espada
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Here’s the opening of a poem I wrote for my uncle before he passed unexpectedly last fall, β€œFor My Uncle Kiko, Who Spent Most of His Life in Psychiatric Hospitals with Schizophrenia”, you can read the whole thing here πŸ™πŸΌ:
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new faculty orientation πŸ‘¨πŸ»β€πŸ«
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One of my favorite poems, first read it in my first ever workshop when I was 19
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finally treated myself to a β€œoh i’m not a student, i actually teach here” bag πŸ˜…
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Guillevic (translated from French by Denise Levertov)
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I was at the Met last month and this is probably one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen in my life. The torso of a centaur is just...a human torso
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big win at the used bookstore today
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Don't think anything else is coming in the mail so here are all my hardcopy publications from this year πŸ™πŸΌπŸ“š thank you to each and every editor ❀️
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Grateful to @QuarterlyTupelo for letting me curate and write a little intro for a folio on Latin American poetry. I hope you'll read it ❀️
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did I do this right
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Happy to have possibly the most ridiculous poem I've ever written in this amazing anthology that I'll be on a panel for later today at @MiamiBookFair ! Huge thanks to @anjanettedelgad and @floridapress 🦞 πŸ¦€
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First chapbook bio (26, fall of the last year of my MFA) vs new chapbook bio (31, fall of my first year as a tenure-track professor). Still kind of nuts to me. 5 years feels like an impossibly long time and an impossibly short time.
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Forwarding this to all the prize committees
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Here's a small poem from my new chapbook written about a year ago after taking one of my many evening sanity-walks during quarantine
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Ifi Amadiume
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Happy cause a dream came true ❀️
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Going home to Miami this weekend but first, Miami comes to me ❀️ Absolutely overjoyed to have a poem in this amazing anthology with so many friends, heroes, classmates, colleagues, and even former bosses πŸ˜‚ This is already a favorite book, thank you @inaminorkey @omiamifestival
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called to get my various insurance cards today. Unbelievably grateful for this job, especially after years and years of not having any insurance. Calling a doctor, dentist, and therapist this week to make appointments feels like a miracle.
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Grateful to have some poems in the new Latino Book Review. Been writing a lot about my last visit to Guatemala and seeing some family I hadn't seen in a long time β€οΈπŸŒ‹πŸŒŠπŸ‘‹πŸΌ
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β€œone has to practice ones craft until there’s at least the illusion of control” β€”Yusef Komunyakaa
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my favorite picture of my parents, it should be in the MoMA
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I started translating this book in 2018 when I was cashiering at a bookstore, stealing company time πŸ˜… Excited for it to be out in the world very soon πŸ‡¬πŸ‡Ή
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One of my mentors/former teachers asked me to visit their grad class in the same email chain that I asked them for a letter of rec for the job I ended up getting. This is my favorite thing ❀️
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Guillevic (translated from French by Denise Levertov)
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Grades submitted. First semester at @LSUCWprogram in the books πŸ™πŸΌ
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Got my 500th response on submittable yesterday (a rejection lol). 71βœ…, 429❌ Here's to the next 500 πŸ˜‚
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Mail from @omiamifestival 🐝
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thrilled to have two poems in the latest issue of @LatinoBookRev from my forthcoming book πŸ‡¬πŸ‡Ή πŸ‡©πŸ‡΄ I keep circling back to my and my family’s relationship to this country. Thank so much to the editors for giving my work a home
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Lorca (translated by Carlos Baur)
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Found a little library in Nola yesterday ❀️
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Excited and grateful to be at @MiamiBookFair in person this year, an actual dream come true. 20 years after my first time there as a kid. Thank you @anjanettedelgad and everyone at @floridapress for this incredible anthology that’s bringing me home ❀️
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Turned 32 under gray Louisiana skies βœŒπŸ½β˜•
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Lorca in my first book, Lorca in my last book ❀️
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Excited to be heading to Chattanooga State in a couple of weeks to talk poetry! 🌊🌊🌊
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Always a good day when author copies arrive ❀️ Any reviewers with a particular interest in Central American/Guatemalan poetry lmk and I'll send you a copy πŸ“¨
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Nothing quite as exciting as signing a contract. More book news soon πŸ‘€
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Really excited to have a new poem in the amazing new issue of @CortlandReview , which is really just a loose translation of one of my dads poems. Thanks so much to @ChrisGullette_ ! check out the whole issue!
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Yearly tradition of raiding my dad's library πŸŽ…πŸ½
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Grateful to have 3 poems in the new issue of Sepia Journal! πŸ›« You can read the whole fantastic issue here:
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Gotta plug the anthology my dad and his friends put together a little while back before the Twitter collapse: Spanish language poetry being written in Orlando 🏠
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Louise GlΓΌck
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Grateful to be kept in such good company with this thoughtful review of my book in the Harvard Review πŸ™πŸΌ thanks so much @RubenQuesada !
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Archaeologists of the Elusive: Six Books by Latinx Poets

This summer, while writing a lecture on queer joy and poetry for a Tin House Summer Workshop, I traced my personal connections to queer Latinx poets of the late twentieth century. After reading these...

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Some light coffee shop reading
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one of the many things i’ll miss about nyc is that moment on the L train when it rises out of the ground and up into the sunlight in the middle of a cemetery
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Destiny Where to go with these wings/ that misunderstand the wind β€”Osvaldo Guevara
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Ariel Francisco πŸ‡©πŸ‡΄πŸ‡¬πŸ‡Ή
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my dad says band shirts are still in
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Ariel Francisco πŸ‡©πŸ‡΄πŸ‡¬πŸ‡Ή
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3 years
A small excerpt from my poem "Stars Over the Bronx" from my forthcoming book with @FlowerSongPress . Thanks to Paperbag Magazine for publishing it, you can read the whole thing here:
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Ariel Francisco πŸ‡©πŸ‡΄πŸ‡¬πŸ‡Ή
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Judith Ortiz Cofer
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2016-2021: 5 years, 5 books, 3 states, 2 masters, 11 jobs, 8 apartments, a lot of rejections, a lot of teachers, a lot of friends ❀️
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was asked to teach a literary translation course in the spring, excited as hell
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β€œSometimes sleep/ is wicked; sometimes it’s a sparrow/ driving its beak in dirt.” β€”Carlie Hoffman ( @Carlie_Eliana )
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Ariel Francisco πŸ‡©πŸ‡΄πŸ‡¬πŸ‡Ή
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3 years
really honored to have two translations of the great Dominican poet Mateo Morrison in the absolutely stacked new issue of @mqr_tweets ! here’s one of them πŸ™πŸΌ
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Having a good autumn πŸ™πŸΌ
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2 years
Writing poems is fun
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Print publications this year: 2 books (✌🏽), a second edition published in another country (πŸ‘€), 2 incredible anthologies (🀝🏽), and a lit mag I've been trying to crack for years (πŸ™πŸΌ)
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2 years
First reading in Baton Rouge! πŸ’œπŸ’›
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Ariel Francisco πŸ‡©πŸ‡΄πŸ‡¬πŸ‡Ή
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3 years
been doing touristy stuff for my last few days in the city and found a street vendor selling those New Yorker prints and half-jokingly browsed for the cover of the issue I was in but there it was! some farewell nyc magic
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Ariel Francisco πŸ‡©πŸ‡΄πŸ‡¬πŸ‡Ή
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still unpacking all my stuff but thinking about how these four books brought me to Louisiana 🐊🏑
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Ariel Francisco πŸ‡©πŸ‡΄πŸ‡¬πŸ‡Ή
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2 years
Whispering "everything's fine" to myself as I purchase yet another olive green jacket
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Ariel Francisco πŸ‡©πŸ‡΄πŸ‡¬πŸ‡Ή
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2 years
Excited to have a poem about *Mario Kart forthcoming with @thirdcoastmag . Knew all those N64 hours would pay off *my parents divorce
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2 years
Prepping for class πŸ₯€
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Ariel Francisco πŸ‡©πŸ‡΄πŸ‡¬πŸ‡Ή
@AriCisco
2 years
Been binging MartΓ­n Espada the last few months πŸ“š
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Ariel Francisco πŸ‡©πŸ‡΄πŸ‡¬πŸ‡Ή
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2 years
Sometimes I'll hear a song from the 60s and find myself bopping along wondering why I know it, and then I suddenly remember that it was on my mom's playlist of songs she would wake us up with on Saturdays when it was time for us to clean the whole house
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2 years
Also me at the bookstore
@Rainmaker1973
Massimo
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2 years
Whale shark eating [whale sharks' diet: ] [πŸ“Ή BBC America: ]
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2 years
Sometimes a strange childhood memory pops into your head in the middle of the night and you gotta see if there's a poem there πŸ˜…
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2 years
Get those manuscripts together and send them our way! πŸ™πŸΌ
@POETSorg
Academy of American Poets
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2 years
The AndrΓ©s Montoya Poetry Prize supports the publication of a first book by a Latinx poet residing in the U.S. The winning poet will receive $1000 & publication by @UNDPress , & will be featured in a reading presented by @LetrasLatinas . Deadline: 3/15/22. .
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Maria Luisa Spaziani (translated by Irene Marchegiani Jones & Carol Lettieri)
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