Ariana Francesca

Poet // Marketing + Creative Strategist, @flcagency // Dir, Comms @nbcdi

[Ariana Francesca @AriFrancesca]

““Ironing Pillowcases” is a piece that multiplies domestic ritual as a mode of continuous un-manifesting, a type of interior weather that keeps out a rising storm.”

Bless you, @TriQuarterlyMag🤎

[Sarah Minor @sarahceniaminor]

@TriQuarterlyMag @writercatblack @franekwuyasi @AriFrancesca If you're into teaching video lit this semester, our editor's letters are a great teaching resource that offer a short critical note to frame each piece for the viewer https://t.co/WWQ9BNzSd0

[Ariana Francesca @AriFrancesca]

@malcolmkenyatta was quite dynamic as the moderator for Power Up yesterday at @GwinnettSchools.

It was a pleasure to listen into a stirring conversation with @staceyabrams, Erika Alexander, and @carolineheldman.

Thank you for having me, @malcolmkenyatta.

[Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta]

“Never tell yourself no, let someone else do that.” -@staceyabrams

A privilege to moderate the closing fireside chat for the “Power Up” series hosted by the White House Initiative On Black Americans.

[Ariana Francesca @AriFrancesca]

@_shateranicole 🫠🫠🫠

[Ariana Francesca @AriFrancesca]

that angst when your name is co-opted… pls don’t remix what my mother gave or what I chose for myself. 🙄

[Ariana Francesca @AriFrancesca]

I was in a mtg with a vendor today and he read my whole natal chart to explain how we can best work together and … 🤯.

[Ajanaé Dawkins @MoonsAtDusk]

Friends at AWP, I'll be on this panel, God Talk: Poetics of Wonder, Awe, and Ecstasy with poets I admire more than I can put into words. I'll be talking about prophetic imagination in contemporary Black poetry. Would love to see you there. ❤️

[Ariana Francesca @AriFrancesca]

Asking for help is a choooore for me, bt getting better + finding that when someone close is floundering, their signs look like mine. Sometimes I have to offer support more than once — that’s normal.
We can’t always recognize when we need help/relief. The knee jerk is refusal.

[Ariana Francesca @AriFrancesca]

@_shateranicole What’s the ROI?

[Ariana Francesca @AriFrancesca]

@_shateranicole YOU BETTA!

[Ariana Francesca @AriFrancesca]

@_shateranicole Target on Camp Creek

[Ariana Francesca @AriFrancesca]

The TSA officer who searched my bag pulled out my glass jar of coconut oil and looked up at me, looked around and slid it back into the bag.

He said, “I get it. But they may not let you bring it back. Safe travels.”

I love Black people.

[Ariana Francesca @AriFrancesca]

In my research for my final @QueensMFA poetry manuscript, I gathered facts abt #BibleWomen.

Fact:
The Bible— including the Old Testament, New Testament, and Apocrypha (yes, y’all need to read that too) is abt 1.1M words long.

Women make up 1.2% of the words spoken, 14k.

[Ariana Francesca @AriFrancesca]

Warriors for the WIN!

[Terrell Thomas @Eldorado2452]

“Coach Terrell aka Coach Daddy”😩🤣🏀

Can’t explain how proud I am of my young kings! GREAT @imhotepacademy win!

We defeated Jackson State last night in overtime. Melo gave us the game winning 12th point! I love this game! I love this team. The future is bright for them.

[Ariana Francesca @AriFrancesca]

There are literally 21 books of the Bible where not ONE woman says a word.
Not one woman's voice is heard.
Not one woman gets to utter a sound.
Kinda wild if you consider that every single man who speaks has a mother, at the very least -- including Jesus.

[Ariana Francesca @AriFrancesca]

@edythejai Agreed

[Sarah Minor @sarahceniaminor]

In "Ironing Pillowcases," poet @AriFrancesca "multiplies domestic ritual as a mode of continuous un-manifesting." https://t.co/5Ey31ppjAu

[Sarah Minor @sarahceniaminor]

Issue 163 of @TriQuarterlyMag is here and it's hot! Featuring new video essay and cinepoetry work by Henry Goldkamp, @writercatblack, @franekwuyasi and @AriFrancesca https://t.co/mPvg1Qau91

[Ariana Francesca @AriFrancesca]

Go watch my latest cinepoem in @TriQuarterlyMag!

… the hoodoo + southern wives tales really work btw 😜

Thank you, @TriQuarterlyMag🤎

[TriQuarterly @TriQuarterlyMag]

"And suddenly your dreams have become my responsibility. I can't have that. So I'm trying everything."

This week's #ThrowbackThursday is more of an #ICYMI, but either way, don't sleep on @AriFrancesca's mesmerizing "Ironing Pillowcases," in the newest TQ https://t.co/jAhycWuZLl

[Ariana Francesca @AriFrancesca]

Not my 5yo watching the news then quietly getting up and setting all the faucets to drip. 🤣

When he finished, he came in the room and said, “Y’all know the drill. Gotta drip these faucets.”

[Ariana Francesca @AriFrancesca]

Nothing will make you clean your house faster than knowing the cleaning lady’s on her way.