Franky (Frances) Cannon
@frankyfrancescannon.com
Writer, artist, editor, educator. Mellon Science and Nature Writing Fellow at Kenyon College. Author of "Walter Benjamin Reimagined", MIT Press, "Fling Diction," Green Writers Press, and other books.
https://linktr.ee/Frankyfrancescannon
https://linktr.ee/Frankyfrancescannon
Read more about grotesque architecture and my cave obsession:
newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Frances Cannon : on Grotto / @frankyfrancescannon.com ;
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/01/fran...
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/01/fran...
Frances Cannon : on Grotto
There is a strange vision lodged in my memory and subconscious: fountains and alcoves dripping with artificial mineral deposits, b...
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com
January 5, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Read more about grotesque architecture and my cave obsession:
Reposted by Franky (Frances) Cannon
newly posted: Frances Cannon @frankyfrancescannon.com : on Grotto
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/01/fran...
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/01/fran...
Frances Cannon : on Grotto
There is a strange vision lodged in my memory and subconscious: fountains and alcoves dripping with artificial mineral deposits, b...
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com
January 3, 2026 at 2:33 PM
newly posted: Frances Cannon @frankyfrancescannon.com : on Grotto
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/01/fran...
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/01/fran...
Reposted by Franky (Frances) Cannon
new from above/ground press: Grotto, by Frances Cannon / @frankyfrancescannon.com ;
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/new-...
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/new-...
new from above/ground press: Grotto, by Frances Cannon
Grotto Frances Cannon $6 Sympoetics After Donna Haraway and the Faerie Queen Trouble in the knots of fertility. Human fictions, entangled an...
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
new from above/ground press: Grotto, by Frances Cannon / @frankyfrancescannon.com ;
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/new-...
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/new-...
I have a new essay with Art UK! artuk.org/discover/sto...
Duncan Grant's intimate sketches of queer life in Bloomsbury and beyond
Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 700,000 artworks by over 60,000 artists.
artuk.org
November 20, 2025 at 11:12 AM
I have a new essay with Art UK! artuk.org/discover/sto...
Happy to have my novel longlisted for the @bridportprize.bsky.social : an excerpt was published in this anthology!
November 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Happy to have my novel longlisted for the @bridportprize.bsky.social : an excerpt was published in this anthology!
Moved my dog across the pond on a ship!
November 9, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Moved my dog across the pond on a ship!
Reposted by Franky (Frances) Cannon
working new above/ground press chapbooks by Guy Birchard, Jill Stengel, Benjamin Niespodziany, Jimmy T Cahill, Lance La Rocque, Rebecca Comay/Cary Fagan, Buck Downs + Frances Cannon this week; have you thought of subscribing? / @frankyfrancescannon.com
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/10/abov...
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/10/abov...
above/ground press: 2026 subscriptions now available!
The race to the half-century continues! And with more than FOURTEEN HUNDRED TITLES produced to date over nearly thirty-two years, there’s be...
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:54 PM
working new above/ground press chapbooks by Guy Birchard, Jill Stengel, Benjamin Niespodziany, Jimmy T Cahill, Lance La Rocque, Rebecca Comay/Cary Fagan, Buck Downs + Frances Cannon this week; have you thought of subscribing? / @frankyfrancescannon.com
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/10/abov...
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/10/abov...
Just learned that Charles Bukowski wrote about a character named 'Franky Cannon' (my name) in his 1972 (City Lights) book, "Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness," which was later split into two volumes and republished as "The Most Beautiful Woman in Town." Neat🤷♂️
October 19, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Just learned that Charles Bukowski wrote about a character named 'Franky Cannon' (my name) in his 1972 (City Lights) book, "Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness," which was later split into two volumes and republished as "The Most Beautiful Woman in Town." Neat🤷♂️
Reposted by Franky (Frances) Cannon
Why I’m Leaving Academia after a Decade of Contingent Labor
Why I’m Leaving Academia after a Decade of Contingent Labor
Roughly 70 percent of faculty are contingent. This exploitative hustle is driving dedicated teachers out of academia.
buff.ly
October 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Why I’m Leaving Academia after a Decade of Contingent Labor
I wrote a piece for @truthout.org about my frustrating path as a contingent professor (adjunct, visiting). I began writing this piece during an OpEd project workshop with the editorial mentorship of Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt @reshmi777.bsky.social read it here: truthout.org/articles/why...
Why I’m Leaving Academia after a Decade of Contingent Labor
Roughly 70 percent of faculty are contingent. This exploitative hustle is driving dedicated teachers out of academia.
truthout.org
October 4, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I wrote a piece for @truthout.org about my frustrating path as a contingent professor (adjunct, visiting). I began writing this piece during an OpEd project workshop with the editorial mentorship of Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt @reshmi777.bsky.social read it here: truthout.org/articles/why...
New podcast conversation with yours truly and Patricia Kaishian, about queer ecologies , fungi, writing, and more! open.spotify.com/episode/6isX...
Episode 19: Queer Fungi
open.spotify.com
September 24, 2025 at 7:51 PM
New podcast conversation with yours truly and Patricia Kaishian, about queer ecologies , fungi, writing, and more! open.spotify.com/episode/6isX...
Impressive turnout for the NO KINGS protest in Ohio
June 14, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Impressive turnout for the NO KINGS protest in Ohio
Reposted by Franky (Frances) Cannon
Thrilled to read about this exhibit curated by Mycologist Patricia Kaishian at New York State Museum -- I hope I get to see it in person!
A Fungi Pioneer’s Lifelong Work on Exhibit www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/s...
A Fungi Pioneer’s Lifelong Work on Exhibit www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/s...
A Fungi Pioneer’s Lifelong Work on Exhibit
Mushrooms in 19th-century watercolors: The paintings of a self-taught female mycologist are featured at the New York State Museum.
www.nytimes.com
March 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Thrilled to read about this exhibit curated by Mycologist Patricia Kaishian at New York State Museum -- I hope I get to see it in person!
A Fungi Pioneer’s Lifelong Work on Exhibit www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/s...
A Fungi Pioneer’s Lifelong Work on Exhibit www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/s...
Reposted by Franky (Frances) Cannon
We need the best educated workforce in the world.
We need the best teachers in the world.
We need to pay our teachers fairly for the important work they do.
No teacher in America should begin at less than $60,000 a year.
We need the best teachers in the world.
We need to pay our teachers fairly for the important work they do.
No teacher in America should begin at less than $60,000 a year.
April 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
We need the best educated workforce in the world.
We need the best teachers in the world.
We need to pay our teachers fairly for the important work they do.
No teacher in America should begin at less than $60,000 a year.
We need the best teachers in the world.
We need to pay our teachers fairly for the important work they do.
No teacher in America should begin at less than $60,000 a year.
Reposted by Franky (Frances) Cannon
so they're mycoblogging
April 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM
so they're mycoblogging
Reposted by Franky (Frances) Cannon
An innocent man, picked up by “mistake,” must not be allowed to rot in an El Salvadorian jail.
Mr. President. Obey the courts. Obey our Constitution. Bring him home immediately.
Mr. President. Obey the courts. Obey our Constitution. Bring him home immediately.
April 11, 2025 at 8:51 PM
An innocent man, picked up by “mistake,” must not be allowed to rot in an El Salvadorian jail.
Mr. President. Obey the courts. Obey our Constitution. Bring him home immediately.
Mr. President. Obey the courts. Obey our Constitution. Bring him home immediately.
Why oh why did I decide to read these two books simultaneously: they couldn't be more different in tone and topic: Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower" and David Foster Wallace's "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again". Or, perhaps they're the perfect pairing:
April 11, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Why oh why did I decide to read these two books simultaneously: they couldn't be more different in tone and topic: Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower" and David Foster Wallace's "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again". Or, perhaps they're the perfect pairing:
Octavia Butler’s Prescient Vision of a Zealot Elected to “Make America Great Again”
www.newyorker.com/books/second...
www.newyorker.com/books/second...
Octavia Butler’s Prescient Vision of a Zealot Elected to “Make America Great Again”
In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time, Butler’s “Parable” books may be unmatched.
www.newyorker.com
April 6, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Octavia Butler’s Prescient Vision of a Zealot Elected to “Make America Great Again”
www.newyorker.com/books/second...
www.newyorker.com/books/second...
New book alert! @howtoloveaforest.bsky.social and I collaborated on this kids book, Willow and the Storm, published by @greenwriterspress.bsky.social
March 18, 2025 at 7:37 PM
New book alert! @howtoloveaforest.bsky.social and I collaborated on this kids book, Willow and the Storm, published by @greenwriterspress.bsky.social
I gave a reading from my poetry collection at my old high school, what a wacky nostalgic experience!
March 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I gave a reading from my poetry collection at my old high school, what a wacky nostalgic experience!
New interview and review of my poetry collection, Fling Diction, launched today @greenwriterspress.bsky.social
February 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
New interview and review of my poetry collection, Fling Diction, launched today @greenwriterspress.bsky.social
Reposted by Franky (Frances) Cannon
Practicing self care by lying on the forest floor until the roots of the trees and mushrooms pierce my body and accept me into their nutrient web
November 2, 2023 at 1:26 AM
Practicing self care by lying on the forest floor until the roots of the trees and mushrooms pierce my body and accept me into their nutrient web
Reposted by Franky (Frances) Cannon
Here are some nice mushrooms
February 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Here are some nice mushrooms
I have a podcast of book recommendations and my 6th episode is now up: Jen Beagin's "Big Swiss". open.spotify.com/episode/2W9y...
EPISODE 6: BIG SWISS by JEN BEAGIN
WRITING PROF BOOK RECS · Episode
open.spotify.com
January 26, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I have a podcast of book recommendations and my 6th episode is now up: Jen Beagin's "Big Swiss". open.spotify.com/episode/2W9y...
Wearing my grandmother Helen's snail pin to remind me to take it slow
January 23, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Wearing my grandmother Helen's snail pin to remind me to take it slow