Fling Diction
Poems
Fling Diction is a book about the vulnerability of desire; these poems explore different styles of relationships, including queer love, polyamory, familial drama, dog and human companionship, and longing in isolation. The characters find and lose each other in rural and urban settings; their experiences are intensified by the sensuality and ferocity of nature. This book is a record of the speaker’ s blunders, embraces, and revelations as she seeks knowledge of the elusive other.
Frances Cannon is an interdisciplinary writer, editor, educator, and artist. She recently served as the Managing Director of the Sundog Poetry Center in Vermont. She has an MFA in creative writing from Iowa and a BA in poetry and printmaking from the University of Vermont. Her published books include: Walter Benjamin Reimagined, MIT Press, among others. Her writing has been published in The New York Times, Poetry Northwest, The North American Review, The Iowa Review, among others. She is the Mellon Science and Nature Writing Fellow at Kenyon College, 2023 - 2025. ,
