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Francisco Delgado
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Website: https://www.francisco-delgado.com/

Author of: On Remembering My Friends, My First Job, and my Second-Favorite Weezer CD (Texas Review Press), available at https://www.tamupress.com/book/9781680034189/on-remembering-my-friends-my-first-jo
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I’m stoked my novella will come out this year with Texas Review Press (pre-order info in bio!). To celebrate, I wanted to put together a list of opportunities for anyone else working in this often-overlooked, “middle” genre. Each includes a link where more info on length, style, etc., can be found.
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90s music + earnestness about what you like is a real arrow to my heart, and Emily Costa nails it all here so perfectly

"We see many gray ponytails. Do you remember American Pie, Tonic asks. Of course we remember American Pie."

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MOLLY AND I SEE FIVE 90S BANDS by Emily Costa
At the Creed concert, which is also the Tonic concert, a woman rubs a bald man’s head. A man dressed like Ernest P. Worrell finds his seat. We see many gray ponytails. Do you remember American Pie,…
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September 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Reading tomorrow with the good folks at Bryant Park Reading Room in Bryant Park! Many thanks to Jason Schneiderman for the invite. I'll be reading some new and old poems - & an excerpt from my novella, which will be on sale at Kinokuniya Bookstore. Hope some of you can make it!
August 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Printing issues may have slightly delayed the release of my fiction novella, but the readings continue!

The first on 6/4, at the Queens Public Library in Flushing. If you can't make it in person, join us on Zoom! The link is on the flyer.
June 2, 2025 at 10:32 PM
The writing community in Queens is absolutely beautiful. I’m grateful to be a part of it.
Meet our next "My Place" storyteller, Francisco Delgado!

Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month with him and story coach Chenda Bao reading this Saturday at @kewandwillow.bsky.social

Read about @delgadoquinata718.bsky.social and grab tickets to our show here: www.noyoutellit.com/2025/05/19/m...
June 1, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Hey BCP fam! We're excited to share that our summer chapbook open reading period is underway. Poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction, we want to read it ALL!

The nitty gritty full details are available at our website (buff.ly/qnH1l7I).
May 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Meet (and wish a Happy Birthday to!) our first "My Place" storyteller, Mary Lannon!
Her unpublished novel, Tide Girl, was a finalist for the 2023 PEN\Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Read more about her and grab tickets to our show here: www.noyoutellit.com/2025/05/15/m...
May 15, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Excited to be a part of this lineup celebrating AAPI Heritage Month at our local bookstore @kewandwillow.bsky.social on Saturday, May 24, 7 pm. Queens folks should definitely stop by!
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Let's Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month
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May 16, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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THIS WEDNESDAY join @kjfitzsimmons.bsky.social & Zach Rothman-Hicks at The World's Borough Bookshop for an evening of writing and portrait trading. Head to the link below for more info, and stay tuned for an exciting announcement coming this Wednesday 😏 www.kellyjeanfitzsimmons.com/prom-queens/
May 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Some nice news to finish the semester: my latest academic article is now available online with
@memorystudies.bsky.social
I’m always so happy to write about Guam. And the CHamoru diaspora. And the ways poetry helps us develop and articulate ways of belonging.
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“Infinity Unfolds at the Horizon”: Poetry of the CHamoru diaspora - Francisco Delgado, 2025
CHamoru people, the Indigenous peoples of the Mariana Islands, have long been voyagers. In contemporary times, their voyages across the United States and beyond...
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May 12, 2025 at 11:36 AM
The blue sky at sunset after daylong rains.
March 25, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Writers over at @porcupinelit.bsky.social are currently being targeted by the MAGA crowd.

Read and share the work of teachers. We can use all the support we can get!

Teachers, send us your work. We will take good care of you.

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Home | Porcupine Literary
Porcupine Literary is a journal by and for teachers.
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March 15, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Just a reminder that fascists, authoritarians, dictators of all stripes destroy archives— books, museums, databases, &c— because those things provide windows onto a plurality of other ways we might organize the world.

And so preserving, defending, and spreading that knowledge harms those regimes.
February 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
5 yrs ago, I woke w/ a fever, which would hit me on&off for the next 10 days. I used some of that time to finish a draft of my novella (pre-order link in bio) inspired by my teenage years in upstate New York, as well as my experience being a parent during those early days of the pandemic.
March 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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February 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Hey NYC poets!

Poets of Queens is hosting a reading from our anthology Poets of Queens 2 next Thursday at Astoria Bookshop at 7pm.

Come join @jaredharel.bsky.social @pichchendabao.bsky.social Maria Lisella Olena Jennings and me!
February 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Hotel views this staycation. Sunset, then dusk.
February 17, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

—Louise Erdrich
February 16, 2025 at 7:09 PM
& suddenly it’s spring.
February 13, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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it's the first of the month & subs are open: xraylitmag.com/submissions/
February 1, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Week 1 of the semester in the books. And I’m hanging on to this feeling of possibility and hope - despite just about everything else going on in the world.
January 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Heading to #MLA25 in New Orleans tomorrow. If anyone is looking to hear about (and share) strategies for integrating Indigenous literatures and epistemologies in class, join us on Saturday, 1:45-3:00 pm, for session #576: Beyond Land Acknowledgements.
January 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Best wishes for our poetry community in 2025!
December 31, 2024 at 11:01 PM
Can’t always choose the direction to grow. But it’s worth it if it supports others.
December 31, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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Happy holidays everyone 💙 we love our poetry family 😘
December 25, 2024 at 7:14 PM
I’m stoked my novella will come out this year with Texas Review Press (pre-order info in bio!). To celebrate, I wanted to put together a list of opportunities for anyone else working in this often-overlooked, “middle” genre. Each includes a link where more info on length, style, etc., can be found.
December 13, 2024 at 9:21 PM