Can't wait to read with these amazing poets, Ariel Francisco 🇩🇴🇬🇹 Kalamu ya Salaam Jack Bedell and Martha Serpas at NOLA Poetry Festival on Sunday at St Roch Tavern this Sunday, April 21st, at 2 PM. Come on out.

#NewOrleansWriters #CubanAmericanWriter #MiamiWriter #Poetry #WritingCommunity

Lost & Found (Lost & Found) editors Megan Paslawski, Khaled al-Hilli, Christopher Green, and Ariel Francisco 🇩🇴🇬🇹
share their archival journeys researching and editing previously unpublished texts & discoveries unearthed from around the world.

Register! tinyurl.com/mrhukyxj

Lost & Found (Lost & Found) editors Megan Paslawski, Khaled al-Hilli, Christopher Green, and Ariel Francisco 🇩🇴🇬🇹 share their archival journeys researching and editing previously unpublished texts & discoveries unearthed from around the world.

Register!
tinyurl.com/mrhukyxj

In honor of #EarthDay & in partnership with Guggenheim Museum, we’ll debut a new collaborative poem, “time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt,” by nickolebrown, J.P. Grasser, John James, & Ariel Francisco 🇩🇴🇬🇹, along with a video performance of the choral piece on Poets.org.

Imagine trying to frame protecting yourself and your students from a well documented and violent stalker when they not only threaten to come to your campus but also admit to contacting your students as 'bullying.' Monstrously manipulative, no wonder y'all are 'fam'

Don’t miss Creative Writing Professors 💐 Maurice 💐 and Ariel Francisco 🇩🇴🇬🇹 reading at the 22nd Spring Literary Festival! Other featured readers include Jericho Brown, Lyz Lenz, and KerryHowley!

Currently reading:

Ariel Francisco’s bilingual collection of #poetry -

A SINKING SHIP IS STILL A SHIP / UN BARCO HUNDIÉNDOSE SIGUE SIENDO UN BARCO

#Translator : J. N. Cabrera-Schneider

Ariel took part in the 2023 #BVI Lit Fest.

#poets #Caribbean #writing Ariel Francisco 🇩🇴🇬🇹 HLSCC

Day 22 comes from a line in All My Heroes are Broke by Ariel Francisco 🇩🇴🇬🇹. I've come to enjoy making duplexes off rhetorical questions, so this was fun to play with.

It's our utter joy to present our 28th issue, full to the brim with poetry, translation, and craft talk by such fine folks as Malvika Jolly, Maria Zoccola, Jared Harél, Ariel Francisco 🇩🇴🇬🇹, and many more!! #poetry #translation #interview #amreading #litmag
fourwayreview.com/issue-28/

Two more poems from my translation of Stefano D'Arrigo's Codice Siciliano are out in the world (& next to a Jacques Viau Renaud translation by Ariel Francisco 🇩🇴🇬🇹, whose feedback helped shape my earliest drafts in my first translation workshop):

fourwayreview.com/two-poems-by-s…

ELJ Editions Maureen Seaton Richard Blanco Ariel Francisco 🇩🇴🇬🇹 Laurie Marshall Jared Beloff Adrian Dallas Frandle Join us for the official launch! eventbrite.com/e/fersace-virt…

Get Fresh Books debuted the cover of Poet of One Island: Selected Poems of Jacques Viau Renaud, translated by LSU Creative Writing Professor Ariel Francisco 🇩🇴🇬🇹.

Ariel’s collection is forthcoming in 2024, and a pre-order link will be available soon!

What began as a student’s hybrid work of literary translation and her own creative writing, Rebecca Suzuki’s debut collection has transformed into a collection of poetry “permeated with paradigm-shifting multilingualism and bookended by lunar musings”:
tinyurl.com/2saket6e

yes, dear reader, she's looking right at you ❤️‍🔥 ABRAMS Books Trident Media Group mark

You can pre-order a copy through ELJ Editions. My thanks to Laurie Marshall & Ariana for the magical design & to my amazing blurbers Richard Blanco, Maureen Seaton, Ariel Francisco 🇩🇴🇬🇹, Denise Duhamel, Caridad Moro-Gronlier & my special friends Jared Beloff & Adrian Dallas Frandle. elj-editions.com/fersace/

Our panel discussion on translation is not to be missed!
Free and open to the public; donations gratefully accepted. All donors automatically entered to win a $25 Community Book Center gift card. eventbrite.com/e/translation-…

This reading is free and open to the public, with donations gratefully accepted. All who donate will be automatically entered to win a $25 gift card from Community Book Center! Brad Richard @bradrichard.bsky.social Carolyn Hembree Karin Cecile Davidson Ariel Francisco 🇩🇴🇬🇹 T Clark
eventbrite.com/e/new-orleans-…

Tomorrow night! There’s still time to register to celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month with Richard Blanco, Ana María Caballero, Ariel Francisco 🇩🇴🇬🇹 & me!