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Francisco Delgado

@delgadoquinata718.bsky.social
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Website: www.francisco-delgado.com Prose writer. Queens dad. Poet Laureate of Target. Author of: On Remembering My Friends, My First Job, and my Second-Favorite Weezer CD (TRP).

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Modern Language Association @modernlanguage.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Submit by 10 November for a special issue of PMLA. Mapping Indigenous Literatures asks how the field of Indigenous humanities criticism has influenced the broader field of Indigenous studies. Learn more about the special issue and how to submit an essay at mla.org/PMLA-Submissions
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Francisco Delgado @delgadoquinata718.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Excited to see my novella featured on Kirkus Review's Best Indie Books of August list www.kirkusreviews.com/book-lists/b...
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Best Indie Books of August | Kirkus Reviews
Weekly book lists of exciting new releases, bestsellers, classics, and more. The lists are curated by the editors of Kirkus Reviews.
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Francisco Delgado @delgadoquinata718.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
I'm excited for this reading next week. It's been a minute since I've shared my creative work in public. NYC-area folks, roll through! #NYC #PoetryReadings
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Francisco Delgado @delgadoquinata718.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Starting poetry month a day early because why not - here’s a favorite in our family, which thanks to Classical Baby, my son knows by heart allpoetry.com/April-Rain-S...
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April Rain Song by Langston Hughes - Famous poems, famous poets. - All Poetry
Comments & analysis: Let the rain kiss you / Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops
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Francisco Delgado @delgadoquinata718.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Wrote my first poem in a long time just now. It's maybe not good, but it's down. and with the whole day left to tinker.
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JMWW Journal @jmwwjournal.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
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Submissions Now Open!
JMWW is open for creative nonfiction, blended & beyond (hybrid), and fiction submissions through December 15th.
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Francisco Delgado @delgadoquinata718.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
My novella is 40% off today on the @TxReviewPress website! Support indie/university presses (and buy a book about cultural identity and memory and community, while you're at it). Use discount code TRP40 at checkout. www.tamupress.com/book/9781680...
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On Remembering My Friends, My First Job, and My Second-Favorite Weezer CD
Winner of The 2024 Clay Reynolds Novella Prize, Selected by Steven Dunn When his son uncovers a Weezer CD at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Cody Taitan...
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HAD @havehashad.com · 11/09/2025
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." www.havehashad.com/3qj5r
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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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Francisco Delgado @delgadoquinata718.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
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!
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Francisco Delgado @delgadoquinata718.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
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.
Flyer for Reading at Queens Public Library, featuring Taiyo Na, Jenevieve Ting, and Francisco Delgado.
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Francisco Delgado @delgadoquinata718.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
The writing community in Queens is absolutely beautiful. I’m grateful to be a part of it.
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Bull City Press @bullcitypress.com · 17/05/2025
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).
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No, YOU Tell It! @noyoutellit.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
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...
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Francisco Delgado @delgadoquinata718.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
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! kewandwillow.com/event/2025-0...
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Let's Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month
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No, YOU Tell It! @noyoutellit.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
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/
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Francisco Delgado @delgadoquinata718.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
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. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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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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Francisco Delgado @delgadoquinata718.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The blue sky at sunset after daylong rains.
A blue sky, with clouds, above a playground in Queens.
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
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. www.porcupineliterary.com
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Home | Porcupine Literary
Porcupine Literary is a journal by and for teachers.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 19/02/2025
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.
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Francisco Delgado @delgadoquinata718.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
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.
book cover featuring a regular image of a small town main street and that same image upside down.
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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
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!
Promotional material with same info against a chain link fence over a rail yard with images of Jared Harél Maria Lisella and Pichchenda Bao.
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Francisco Delgado @delgadoquinata718.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Hotel views this staycation. Sunset, then dusk.
Manhattan skyline at sunsetManhattan skyline at dusk.
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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
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
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Francisco Delgado @delgadoquinata718.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
& suddenly it’s spring.
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X-R-A-Y @xraylitmag.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
it's the first of the month & subs are open: xraylitmag.com/submissions/
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Francisco Delgado @delgadoquinata718.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
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.
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Francisco Delgado @delgadoquinata718.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
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.
List of presenters for MLA session #576 called “Beyond Land Acknowledgements.”
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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Best wishes for our poetry community in 2025!
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Francisco Delgado @delgadoquinata718.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Can’t always choose the direction to grow. But it’s worth it if it supports others.
A tree growing in support of another.

Forest Park, Queens.
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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Happy holidays everyone 💙 we love our poetry family 😘
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Francisco Delgado @delgadoquinata718.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
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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HAD @havehashad.com · 22/11/2024
"I still have your location. I’m not sure I ever want to talk again, but sometimes I do want to know where you are on a Friday afternoon in autumn, five years after we last spoke." little piece of 🔥 today from Teal Ivy Hall!! www.havehashad.com/rlvqa
Alt text: A graphic featuring a pile of skulls at the top. Below the skulls, text reads: "November 22, 2024 YOU CAN NO LONGER SEND MESSAGES TO THIS PERSON Teal Ivy Hall." The design has a stark black and white color scheme.
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Next week!! kewandwillow.com/event/2024-1...
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Poetry Open Mic
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Francisco Delgado @delgadoquinata718.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Getting older means appreciating this scene of the parents in The Christmas Story. The house dark, except the Christmas tree. The snow outside. A glass of wine.
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Francisco Delgado @delgadoquinata718.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
My first post on this platform. And for good reason! Cant wait to hear some great work by some good people on Nov. 22.
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