Grotto
a game in the crypt
caverns, wet tricks
Drawing by Frances Cannon. Digitally set Caslon type. Printed as a polymer plate by Boxcar Press. Letterpress printed by Send Me Press.
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Franky Frances Cannon is a writer, editor, educator, and artist. She is the Reviews Editor for Poetry Wales, an editorial reader for The Kenyon Review, and an affiliated scholar at Kenyon College, where she recently completed the Mellon Science and Nature Writing Fellowship. She has an MFA in creative writing from Iowa and a BA from the University of Vermont. She is the author and illustrator of several books: Walter Benjamin Reimagined (MIT Press, 2019), The Highs and Lows of Shapeshift Ma and Big-Little Frank (Gold Wake Press, 2017), Tropicalia (Vagabond Press, 2016), Fling Diction (Green Writers Press, 2024), Willow and the Storm, (Green Writers Press, 2025), and Queer Flora, Fauna, Funga (forthcoming with Valiz Press in 2026). Her work has been published in The New York Times, Poetry Northwest, Poetry International, The North American Review, The Iowa Review, Vice, Lithub, Gastronomica, Electric Lit, Fourth Genre, Rhino Poetry, The Kenyon Review, and other venues.
caverns, wet tricks
Drawing by Frances Cannon. Digitally set Caslon type. Printed as a polymer plate by Boxcar Press. Letterpress printed by Send Me Press.
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Franky Frances Cannon is a writer, editor, educator, and artist. She is the Reviews Editor for Poetry Wales, an editorial reader for The Kenyon Review, and an affiliated scholar at Kenyon College, where she recently completed the Mellon Science and Nature Writing Fellowship. She has an MFA in creative writing from Iowa and a BA from the University of Vermont. She is the author and illustrator of several books: Walter Benjamin Reimagined (MIT Press, 2019), The Highs and Lows of Shapeshift Ma and Big-Little Frank (Gold Wake Press, 2017), Tropicalia (Vagabond Press, 2016), Fling Diction (Green Writers Press, 2024), Willow and the Storm, (Green Writers Press, 2025), and Queer Flora, Fauna, Funga (forthcoming with Valiz Press in 2026). Her work has been published in The New York Times, Poetry Northwest, Poetry International, The North American Review, The Iowa Review, Vice, Lithub, Gastronomica, Electric Lit, Fourth Genre, Rhino Poetry, The Kenyon Review, and other venues.
