Frances Cannon is a writer, artist, and teacher. Author of Walter Benjamin Reimagined, MITPress, and The Highs and Lows, Gold Wake Press. MFA : Iowa, BFA: UVM
Joined July 2013
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21 Jan 2025
So over this platform and the people behind it, moving to Bluesky bsky.app/profile/frankycanno…
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6 Nov 2024
No words for this dark day, except I opened right to this poem, by Ruth Stone
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31 Oct 2024
Happy to be included in the Indianapolis Review Zodiac Issue theindianapolisreview.com/se… @IndianapolisRev
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9 Oct 2024
We've some fantastic news this Wednesday!
Two of our Edinburgh writers have been selected for the Gothenburg AIR Literature Västra Götaland Residency!
cityofliterature.com/two-edi…
👏👏 Katalina Watt and Frances Cannon
ALT Blue image with two images of people more central - left of centre is Frances Cannon in a blue shirt, cropped wavy hair, glasses and a red jacket, and right of centre is Katalina Watt in a blue dress with flowers in her dark straight mid-length hair. Below and above their headshots are their names written in moss green with a blue background and on the top right is the logo for Edinburgh City of Literature.
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21 Sep 2024
I started a book recommendation podcast called "Writing Prof Book Recs", listen to the first episode about @GarthGreenwell 's Small Rain, here and on Spotify, frankyfrancescannon.com/podc…
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28 Aug 2024
Ooh! My book is on The Academy of American Poets' summer reading list! @POETSorg poets.org/2024-summer-books
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11 Aug 2024
Aha! I'm in the New Yorker 😂 "Dear Pepper: To What Degree?"
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15 May 2024
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15 May 2024
a breathtakingly brilliant new novel by @K__Patrick (MRS. S) coming @EuropaEditions
talk about taking it to the next level! 🎆🎆🔥🔥🔥🎇🎇 👏👏 🙏 @ange_tranvan @atatelewis
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1 May 2024
😭 They made me the poet laureate of Vermont. I just love this state so much.
Thank you everyone for the messages I just happen to literally be teaching poetry in the woods today. Thank you @VTArtsCouncil ❤️❤️❤️
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18 Apr 2024
Please join us for or a reading and conversation with Kaveh Akbar and @FrancesArtist about their new books Martyr and Fling Diction. A Q&A with the audience will follow, and books will be available for purchase and signing afterwards.
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ALT A Reading and Conversation with Kaveh Akbar and Frances Cannon: Wednesday, May 1, 7:00 PM Gund Gallery Community Foundation Theater Co-Sponsored by Kenyon College English Department, LGBT0 Diversity Fund, and the Kenyon Campus Community Development Fund
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18 Apr 2024
Stunning! 🤩🌿🌳🍃💚
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13 Apr 2024
Kids these days 😂
9 Apr 2024
Kids today! You ever fought a forest fire that you yourself started? You ever had thirteen kids by seventeen different women? No? Never? Yeah, I didn’t think so. nyer.cm/dXnzMZ7
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3 Apr 2024
Woolf, on the eclipse, "How can I express the darkness? It was a sudden plunge, when one did not expect it; being at the mercy of the sky; our own nobility; the druids; Stonehenge; and the racing red dogs; all that was in one’s mind."
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23 Mar 2024
"What a phantasmagoria the mind is and meeting place of dissemblables!" Orlando, Woolf.
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5 Mar 2024
THIS FRIDAY! Vermonters, come to my book launch in Winooski at the new Specs Cafe to get a fancy drink, hear some poetry, and maybe buy a book. My new book "Fling Diction" is out with @GreenWritersPub and I'm ready to share it! #poetry #booklaunch
#Vermont #book #poems
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12 Feb 2024
Read my visual book review of Katie Holten's "The Language of Trees" in The Indianapolis Review! theindianapolisreview.com/fr… #bookreview #graphicliterature #trees #naturewriting @katieholten
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26 Jan 2024
My new poetry collection, Fling Diction, arrived in the mail today at my office at Kenyon College, sent by @GreenWritersPub So thrilled. The book can now be ordered on the Green Writers Press Website, find it through my website, or DM me!
#newbook
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20 Jan 2024
“I’ve seen academic life destroy the best writers of my generation.” —Susan Sontag buff.ly/49oISvO
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