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Vievee Francis

Vievee Francis

Vievee Francis

Born: 31 December 1963

Vievee Francis is the author of Blue-Tail Fly (Wayne State University Press, 2006), Horse in the Dark (Northwestern University Press, 2012), and Forest Primeval (Northwestern University Press, 2016), winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry. She is an associate professor at Dartmouth College and an associate editor for Callaloo. (Source)

Poems by Vievee Francis

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I’ve Been Thinking about Love Again by Vievee Francis

February 12, 2026
“Those who live to have it and / those who live to give it.” — Vievee Francis
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The Poets Who Are Our Enemies by Vievee Francis

October 21, 2025
"The poets who are our enemies are not writing / for a canon, their letters black as smoke / filling an emptied square. They are writing for their lives." — Vievee Francis
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Another Antipastoral by Vievee Francis

October 8, 2025
"My curious tale. I want to stand still but find myself moved patch by patch." — Vievee Francis