aɐrik francis

"your work is not a fit and we won't be asking for more... but we really enjoyed reading it and admire your work!" why have i received this note *multiple times* *this week*??? siiiiighhhhhh 🙃🫠😵‍💫🫥

i know i ask this all the time, but do you know of a political page poet who does *not* exclusively write docu-poems? Every so-called "political poet" I can think of is either a spoken word poet, a docu-poet, or they died and had their "political poems" published post-humously

Learning that my chapbook MISEDUCATION is reaching the end of its print run. just as quickly as they came, all of my chapbooks will soon be unavailable. it would be cool to collect each chap into one book, though, I'd hate for that to be my "first book". so it'd have to come after the "first book"

this is random, but i was thinking about how a few years ago i was reading and enjoying Mary Jo Bang's translation of The Inferno until Eric Cartman from South Park showed up in Canto VI and it kinda ruined the illusion/fun for me and I stopped reading 🥴

surprise surprise, i like the new charli xcx album– it's fun and irreverant. it's not brat at all and yet it's so brat. it's avoidant yet vulnerable been enjoying all the guitar eras of artists because it's like going back to basics while also building on / moving forward from their discographies

it's wild how so many of my favorite electronic musicians were like, okay it's time for a guitar phase. (granted, I think it is a kind of response to the electronic takeover of music [from ai to algorithms to autotune, etc]) Shit, even me phaentompoet.bandcamp.com/track/reason...

fascinated by the Reckless Ben and Bricks and Minifigs youtube series because I think it shows the horrific truth of the current USAmerican justice system, from cops to judges and their biased relationship to corporations #BrickByBrick

finally finished The Boyfriend season 2. between that and Heated Rivalry, been consuming a lot of shows with queer joy and it makes my heart happy even as i simulatenously reflect on how the usa sucks

related, i'm always thinking about this quote from the essay "Self Help" by Morgan Parker in her book _You Get What You Pay For_ "I’m a poet who’s never experienced true romantic love; I believe this is an American tragedy."

every especially cool poetry event i do, afterward, the moon speaks to me not sure what it tells me, but it always calls out and grabs my attention

what if my drag name was faeri krancis

what if my drag name was faeri krancis

every especially cool poetry event i do, afterward, the moon speaks to me not sure what it tells me, but it always calls out and grabs my attention

idk what's worse, that i saw a waymo in denver or that a human was driving it

i think my next poetry workshop is gonna be on onomatopoeia. It's one of the first things we learn about poetry, so it's made to seem childish. But not only is the etymology of many words [surprisingly] onomatopoeia/ the sound it makes, but it is also a great device to elevate spoken performance

it's cool to think about how words in other languages begin as onomatopoeia and then end up in English decontextualized. Examples: the French word "cliché" has its origins in the sound of printing a stereotype. Or like the pokemon Pikachu, where "pika" is thunder in Japanese, from the sound

i think my next poetry workshop is gonna be on onomatopoeia. It's one of the first things we learn about poetry, so it's made to seem childish. But not only is the etymology of many words [surprisingly] onomatopoeia/ the sound it makes, but it is also a great device to elevate spoken performance