Reposted by Francisco DelgadoModern Language Association @modernlanguage.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Submit 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 043
Francisco Delgado @delgadoquinata718.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Excited to see my novella featured on Kirkus Review's Best Indie Books of August list www.kirkusreviews.com/book-lists/b...kirkusreviews.comBest Indie Books of August | Kirkus ReviewsWeekly book lists of exciting new releases, bestsellers, classics, and more. The lists are curated by the editors of Kirkus Reviews. 010
Francisco Delgado @delgadoquinata718.bsky.social · 15/04/2026I'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 000
Francisco Delgado @delgadoquinata718.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Starting 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...allpoetry.comApril Rain Song by Langston Hughes - Famous poems, famous poets. - All PoetryComments & analysis: Let the rain kiss you / Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops 000
Francisco Delgado @delgadoquinata718.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Wrote 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. 000
Reposted by Francisco DelgadoJMWW Journal @jmwwjournal.bsky.social · 01/12/2025jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/1...jmwwblog.wordpress.comSubmissions Now Open!JMWW is open for creative nonfiction, blended & beyond (hybrid), and fiction submissions through December 15th. 01310
Francisco Delgado @delgadoquinata718.bsky.social · 01/12/2025My 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...tamupress.comOn Remembering My Friends, My First Job, and My Second-Favorite Weezer CDWinner 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... 000
Reposted by Francisco DelgadoHAD @havehashad.com · 11/09/202590s 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/3qj5rhavehashad.comMOLLY AND I SEE FIVE 90S BANDS by Emily CostaAt 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,… 0195
Francisco Delgado @delgadoquinata718.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Reading 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! 000
Francisco Delgado @delgadoquinata718.bsky.social · 02/06/2025Printing 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. 010
Francisco Delgado @delgadoquinata718.bsky.social · 02/06/2025The writing community in Queens is absolutely beautiful. I’m grateful to be a part of it. 000
Reposted by Francisco DelgadoBull City Press @bullcitypress.com · 17/05/2025Hey 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). 043
Reposted by Francisco DelgadoNo, YOU Tell It! @noyoutellit.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Meet (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... 032
Francisco Delgado @delgadoquinata718.bsky.social · 16/05/2025Excited 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...kewandwillow.comLet's Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month 010
Reposted by Francisco DelgadoNo, YOU Tell It! @noyoutellit.bsky.social · 12/05/2025THIS 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/ 042
Francisco Delgado @delgadoquinata718.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Some 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/...journals.sagepub.com“Infinity Unfolds at the Horizon”: Poetry of the CHamoru diaspora - Francisco Delgado, 2025CHamoru people, the Indigenous peoples of the Mariana Islands, have long been voyagers. In contemporary times, their voyages across the United States and beyond... 000
Francisco Delgado @delgadoquinata718.bsky.social · 25/03/2025The blue sky at sunset after daylong rains. 010
Reposted by Francisco DelgadoJared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Writers 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.comporcupineliterary.comHome | Porcupine LiteraryPorcupine Literary is a journal by and for teachers. 25126
Reposted by Francisco DelgadoDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 19/02/2025Just 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. 1530171277
Francisco Delgado @delgadoquinata718.bsky.social · 17/03/20255 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. 000
Reposted by Francisco DelgadoJared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Hey 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! 096
Francisco Delgado @delgadoquinata718.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Hotel views this staycation. Sunset, then dusk. 010
Reposted by Francisco DelgadoChen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 16/02/2025You 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 19329
Reposted by Francisco DelgadoX-R-A-Y @xraylitmag.bsky.social · 01/02/2025it's the first of the month & subs are open: xraylitmag.com/submissions/ 02610
Francisco Delgado @delgadoquinata718.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Week 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. 000
Francisco Delgado @delgadoquinata718.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Heading 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. 020
Reposted by Francisco DelgadoONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 31/12/2024Best wishes for our poetry community in 2025! 25113
Francisco Delgado @delgadoquinata718.bsky.social · 31/12/2024Can’t always choose the direction to grow. But it’s worth it if it supports others. 000
Reposted by Francisco DelgadoONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 25/12/2024Happy holidays everyone 💙 we love our poetry family 😘 0244
Francisco Delgado @delgadoquinata718.bsky.social · 13/12/2024I’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. 192
Reposted by Francisco DelgadoHAD @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 0172
Reposted by Francisco DelgadoJared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Next week!! kewandwillow.com/event/2024-1...kewandwillow.comPoetry Open Mic 0128
Francisco Delgado @delgadoquinata718.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Getting 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. 010
Francisco Delgado @delgadoquinata718.bsky.social · 10/11/2024My first post on this platform. And for good reason! Cant wait to hear some great work by some good people on Nov. 22. 051