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Franky (Frances) Cannon

@frankyfrancescannon.com

Writer, artist, editor, educator. Mellon Science and Nature Writing Fellow at Kenyon College. Author of "Walter Benjamin Reimagined", MIT Press, "Fling Diction," Green Writers Press, and other books. https://linktr.ee/Frankyfrancescannon

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rob mclennan@robmclennan.bsky.social · 10mo ago

working new above/ground press chapbooks by Guy Birchard, Jill Stengel, Benjamin Niespodziany, Jimmy T Cahill, Lance La Rocque, Rebecca Comay/Cary Fagan, Buck Downs + Frances Cannon this week; have you thought of subscribing? / @frankyfrancescannon.com abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/10/abov...

above/ground press: 2026 subscriptions now available!

The race to the half-century continues! And with more than FOURTEEN HUNDRED TITLES produced to date over nearly thirty-two years, there’s be...

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Franky (Frances) Cannon@frankyfrancescannon.com · 10mo ago

Just learned that Charles Bukowski wrote about a character named 'Franky Cannon' (my name) in his 1972 (City Lights) book, "Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness," which was later split into two volumes and republished as "The Most Beautiful Woman in Town." Neat🤷‍♂️

Franky (Frances) Cannon@frankyfrancescannon.com · 10mo ago

I wrote a piece for @truthout.org about my frustrating path as a contingent professor (adjunct, visiting). I began writing this piece during an OpEd project workshop with the editorial mentorship of Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt @reshmi777.bsky.social read it here: truthout.org/articles/why...

Why I’m Leaving Academia after a Decade of Contingent Labor

Roughly 70 percent of faculty are contingent. This exploitative hustle is driving dedicated teachers out of academia.

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