aɐrik francis

so disgusted with all the destruction, cruelty, and death my country is responsible for

nobody seems to like my music but me, but i like my music a lot, and i know i have good taste, so there's that

i applied to UMS again

lmao it's like, fat chance! still had to try

A lot of people, including me, were wondering how an IRB could ever approve this study.

The answer is that no IRB did. The person who “signed off” on approval from the only ethics board that reviewed it had resigned three years earlier. His signature was used without his knowledge.

i know posting on this app doesn't mean much when i barely interact with anyone on here and don't even know who i'm talking to, but i gotta at least try. besides, it's you, dear reader reading right now, i'm talking to you. hello ! ✨🌱

Body Poetics: A Poetry Workshop | Abode Press Led by Aerik Francis, this generative writing workshop is an invitation to check in with our bodies and consider our bodies alongside our writing.

and if you are looking to write more poetry this year and need a boost, i am facilitating a virtual poetry workshop with Abode Press on March 15 on Body Poetics

get tickets here

www.abodepress.com/events-1/bod...

AWP Offsite Event: Radical Futures: An Empowering Evening of Poetry & Prose | Abode Press Join Abode Press, Sundress Publications, Honey Literary, and 9 powerhouse writers for an evening of poetry and prose on radical futures.

if you are going to AWP this year you can hear me read from my new chapbook BODYPOLITIC for the first time (and get your own copy) at this offsite event with Abode, Sundress, and Honey Lit

www.abodepress.com/events-1/awp...

BODYPOLITIC by Aerik Francis | Abode Press BODYPOLITIC by Aerik Francis is the second chapbook in Abode's 2025-2026 lineup and is officially available for pre-order! All orders will be shipped by mid March. There are only 100 copies of this ch...

Cover reveal and preorder link are now up for my new poetry chapbook, BODYPOLITIC, out March 1 with Abode Press
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Thank you to @clmporg.bsky.social for featuring beestung bee-loveds S*an D. Henry-Smith and Aerik Francis in this roundup!

To celebrate Black History Month, we're sharing selections from our anthology INFINITE CONSTELLATIONS! Get 30% off & free shipping for all our books this month with code BHM at checkout! www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366198...

To explore more work by Aerik Francis: www.phaentompoet.com

Libraries are among the few public institutions that represent the kind of world we want to live in. They must be fought for.

We cannot normalize this federal occupation of Minneapolis.

It is not normal to watch people abducted in front of our eyes—dragged from car windows, pulled from their homes, and children left without parents.

This is not about immigration. It’s about unchecked cruelty.

My comfort with uncertainty and the knowledge that uncertainty is not synonymous with chaos are helping to ground me.

Piecemeal, by phaentompoet from the album PRXPAGANDA

So much so that I wrote my own poem after it. So much so that I took the poem and made it a song
phaentompoet.bandcamp.com/track/piecem...

anywho, I'm always thinking of this poem www.shadeliteraryarts.org/single-post/...

I mean, it's not like the Nobel Prize was a super legitimate thing to begin with, given its vast history of gifting peace prizes to war criminals. But if it had an legitimacy before, certainly now no more

ever since i started watching Heated Rivalry I've been writing really sweet poems. it's rather bittersweet because i'd rather the poems be slutty and horny, but whatever, i'll take these bittersweet sweet poems (and actually, not even saccharine, they are not-too-sweet bittersweet sweet poems)

at first he followed me for two blocks asking for fentanyl, but when i got inside the space, he switched up and tried to suggest that i was an "illegal"

of all the drugs, white supremacy is truly a hell of a drug

a random white guy followed me yesterday and harassed me for ID, suggesting that I was "not from Colorado"

luckily I was in a space where i had folks to come to my aid and get that man out of the space, but it was very very weird and concerning

I just finished The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor and I just think that if you read that book and also my chapbook MISEDUCATION, you'll be thoroughly convinced to never pursue grad skool 😅

Sundress Academy for the Arts Presents "Word/Play: A Generative Poetry Workshop" - The Sundress Blog The Sundress Academy for the Arts is excited to present “Word/Play: A Generative Poetry Workshop,” a workshop led by Aerik Francis on Wednesday, December 10th from 6:00-7:30 PM EST. This event will be...

hullo [poets & writers of] bluesky

i'm facilitating a generative poetry writing workshop next week. it's virtual and free and i'd love to see you there

December 10th at 6pm EST (which, for me, is 4pm MST)

sundressblog.com/2025/11/20/s...

trying to remember what it feels like to share mundane thoughts, feelings, and media [to friends/to strangers/to whoever you are reading this] without feeling a strange sense of shame or embarrassment

I read You Better Be Lightning again today, and i'm left resonating on the power of words, and in particular, the word "love"

love

it's so strange how business have and use our data. capitalism is so strange, to say the least

i woke up today to birthday greetings from my alma mater (?? don't recall this happening before), from my dentist office, and from my local pharmacy 😅🥴😵‍💫

perhaps related, perhaps not... but I then learned (for the first time! [how!?]) of a slave insurrection called the Stono Rebellion of 1739

wow

poetry / history rabbit hole: i wanted to use the word "behemoth" in a poem and the word "mammoth" rolled out after. I became curious if there were American mammoths... and learned that enslaved Africans found a mammoth tooth in Stono River, South Carolina in 1725

omg someone already listened to my album 🥹🥹🥹

oh also hi bluesky my new poetry album PRXPAGANDA is out now, streamable and downloadable exclusively on bandcamp

link in linktree in bio

(and by the way, I try my best to refer to the country as USA and not America. People often laugh when I say I am from Denver, Colorado, USA because we often just make the assumption. America is a super continent, divided in two [arguably 3 plus islands]. America is not just the USA)

(this may or may not be a critical question undergirding my poetry manuscript, aptly titled American Polytychs)

i just really want us to critically think about the identity "American" – who does and and doesn't come to mind? what does an American look like? what do they act like?

now think about yourself: to what extent do you fit or not fit that identity?