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Adam Gianforcaro

@adamg.bsky.social
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Writer in Delaware. Chapbook: POEMS TO STAGE DIVE TO (Stanchion, 2026). Full length: EVERY LIVING DAY (Thirty West, 2023). Work in The Offing, Harvard Advocate, Ninth Letter, etc. Probably eating a little treat. 🏳️‍🌈

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Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Important post. Sunny is 14.
Sheltie with a tiny sombrero and a happy birthday banner
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Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Buying an audiobook of a physical book I am halfway through because I absolutely cannot put it down and need to now drive an hour. Best feeling.
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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Cover reveal + preorder link for my very gaysian book of craft essays!! IN CAHOOTS WITH THE RABBIT GOD out December 1st 💫 🐇
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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
✨COVER REVEAL✨ for my new chap, SENTENCE, out with Nine Syllables Press on December 1st! If you love my brother poems, you will love these as well! PRE-ORDER at the link: www.ninesyllablespress.com/shop/p/sente... And learn more in the replies! Graphics: 9SP IG
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Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Have you seen the Best of @thirtywestph.com chap? What a great way to celebrate 10 yrs as a small press staple. And I’m very excited to have 2 poems in it from Every Living Day, which they published back in 2023. Check it out and find your new fav indie author. www.thirtywestph.com/shop/p/bestv...
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Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Should I sue for using my likeness?
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Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
25 years ago was my first day of high school. I thought it would be memorable for other reasons, but the reality was much darker.
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Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
When Edmund White wrote, “How I long to be on the beach or on the deck of a beautiful house with a smart crowd of people,” I felt that in my soul.
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Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I value honesty and forthrightness from my physicians, but my dermatologist doesn’t have to say which tattoos he likes and doesn’t like every time I go in for an exam.
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Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
CHICAGOLAND FRIENDS, let me hop on a reading this weekend, pleaseeee.
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Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
If my dumbass spends $600 on a last minute flight to Chicago for Printers Row Lit Fest this weekend, does anyone have a reading I can hop on?
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Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is what my dad commented on the post about me winnning the book award. Can’t get much more dad than that.
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Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
🚨 SOME NEWS 🚨
2026 Gasher Book Award Winner
Adam Gianforcaro
A Patch in the Astral Flower Bed

"Blending Frank O'Hara's restless, conversational wit with James Wright's lyric beauty, these poems illuminate the problems of living and loving amid chaos and give us reasons to remain attuned-" final judge, Sandra Simonds
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Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
🚨 SOME NEWS 🚨
2026 Gasher Book Award Winner
Adam Gianforcaro
A Patch in the Astral Flower Bed

"Blending Frank O'Hara's restless, conversational wit with James Wright's lyric beauty, these poems illuminate the problems of living and loving amid chaos and give us reasons to remain attuned-" final judge, Sandra Simonds
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Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
My favorite thing this week was seeing an off-brand Connect 4 called MEGA 4 IN A LINE.
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Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Taco Bell should be labeled as an SSRI.
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Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
HEY-YO! I have a new ekphrastic poem in @bulbregion.bsky.social inspired by this lovely painting. Give it read! bulbregion.com/Poem-Draped-...
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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"Here is the pink of my brainstuff. Here it is again trying to make sense of the godlike values pulled from the painter’s pallet." Don't miss Adam Gianforcaro's (@adamg.bsky.social) "Poem Draped in Perfect Pink" in The Bulb Region today. 🔗👇
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Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
HEY-YO! I have a new ekphrastic poem in @bulbregion.bsky.social inspired by this lovely painting. Give it read! bulbregion.com/Poem-Draped-...
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Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
[very vague very big news coming soon]
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Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I just think more people should high five.
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Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Coffee is cool and all but have you ever tried rest?
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Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A perk of reading diverse books? I just learned about puerquitos (pig shaped gingerbread cookies from Mexico) and I’m obsessed with them.
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Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
My local bookstore, @huxleyandhiro.bsky.social, publicly called out a transphobe who harassed one of their employees today. Please consider buying your next book there, and let’s continue to focus our dollars on community-based, antifascist businesses who love us back. bookshop.org/shop/Huxleya...
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Huxley & Hiro Bookshop
We are an independent, community-focused bookstore in historic downtown Wilmington, Delaware, established in October 2023. We are organized as a Delaware public benefit corporation actively pursuing B...
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Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Just edited out 8 lines from a poem and no longer need them. Curbside pickup available.
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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Today's Feature: "Consumption" by Adam Gianforcaro from Poems to Stage Dive To published by @stanchion.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/consump...
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Consumption
I have swallowed rot as rank as riverbeds, gnawed mold- pitted pride until it reached its dim-lit dwelling
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Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I am today's feature in Poetry Daily. What an absolute dream. poems.com/poem/consump...
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Consumption
I have swallowed rot as rank as riverbeds, gnawed mold- pitted pride until it reached its dim-lit dwelling
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Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Oh hey, it’s #smallpoemsunday cc: @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
Dead Time

Everything is alive. Artificially alive 
but alive nonetheless. The men 
cruise data centers now. A hum 
through the humming through the hum.
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Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 21/08/2026
Thirty West Best of 10 Years Volume 01 ft. @anniejowrites.bsky.social @adamg.bsky.social @theoriginalison.bsky.social @rossmcmeekin.bsky.social @keslentz.bsky.social @joshdale.co Olivia Zarzycki & Nicole Rivas. $13.33 & comes with a trail pack. Handmade. Escape the mundane w/ fiction & poetry.
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Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Petition to make the British spelling of storeys (as in floors, levels, etc) standard American English.
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Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I bought a few alebrijes in Mexico City and I’m so obsessed with this gay frog.
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Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Found a bit of home in Mexico City
Bottles of Delaware Punch
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Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
If you're bored, I'm doing a reading and answering some questions with the kind folks at The Writer's Center at 7PM ET on Zoom. Don't make me make a sad face like this. Get the link here: writer.org/event/poetry...
Adam on a Zoom screen pouting his lip. His belly also hurts but he's being brave about it.
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Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I had a dream that I was at a reading and couldn’t figure out my setlist so I ended up sitting there not doing anything for 30 minutes. And honestly, that could very well happen tonight.
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Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This free virtual session is tomorrow at 7PM. Would love if you came to hang out!
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Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The guy who sits next to me at work just bought all my books online. I’m so thankful, but also, this man is going to know a lot more about my life than I would have shared otherwise. Whoops.
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Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I had a bad day but then learned it’s Snoopy’s birthday and it’s illegal to be sad now.
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Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Lmfao I thought this was Elliott Smith at first
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Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Your two favorite books at the local bookshop.
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Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
My TBR is looking like it could more insane. What book can’t you stop thinking about? What poems do you want to share with everyone? Send me your recommendations!
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Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Poetry prompt: Eat ice cream. Cry. Write nothing.
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Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Next Wednesday. Please come. 👉👈
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Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Literature’s Punk-O-Rama
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Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I left my freezer cracked open by accident and now everything needs to be thrown away. 🙃
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Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Congratulations to Glass poet @adamg.bsky.social!! Y'all should go read this amazing poem asap!
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Asterales: A Journal of Arts & Letters @asteralesjournal.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Congrats to Issue 7's @adamg.bsky.social whose poem "Consumption" is on Poetry Daily today! tinyurl.com/ajp6bbb2
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Consumption
I have swallowed rot as rank as riverbeds, gnawed mold- pitted pride until it reached its dim-lit dwelling
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Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
👍
Text bubble that reads: I just read your poem from today. They always seem so sad. Are you ok?
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Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I am today's feature in Poetry Daily. What an absolute dream. poems.com/poem/consump...
poems.com
Consumption
I have swallowed rot as rank as riverbeds, gnawed mold- pitted pride until it reached its dim-lit dwelling
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Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Looking for a last minute chapbook to read for The Sealey Challenge? I'm selling this lil guy for super cheap. This weekend only. (っ◔◡◔)っ ♥ $8 ♥ Signed and shipped.
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Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Looking for a last minute chapbook to read for The Sealey Challenge? I'm selling this lil guy for super cheap. This weekend only. (っ◔◡◔)っ ♥ $8 ♥ Signed and shipped.
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