Poetry & VISUAL art

by Francis Dylan Waguespack

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PAINTING

I’m a painter who is driven toward portraits and figures. Increasingly, I am interested in birds and landscapes. I primarily work in oils, but I also work in charcoal and conte sticks, watercolors (birds), and oil pastels.

POETRY

I write about home, the politics of disaster, and being from a place and in a body that both live under threat. My work appears in wildness, ONLY POEMS, Salvation South, Delta Poetry Review, Boudin, and elsewhere. I also have poems forthcoming in The Rumpus, The Penn Review, wildness, and Foglifter.

My debut collection, Tooth Gaps in the Archives, is a finalist for the 2025 Button Poetry First Book Award and the 2025 St. Lawrence Book Award. My poem “Subsidence” is nominated by January House for a 2026 Pushcart Prize in Poetry. My poem “A Body in Public” was chosen by Salvation South Editor-in-Chief Chuck Reece as his favorite of the year.

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