Frankie Balzano (he/him) is a queer poet weaving weird stories and alchemizing the horrors into words on the internet. He is the author of the chapbook Spider Rodeo (Bottlecap Press, 2022). His work has appeared in Same Faces Collective, Sunday Mornings at the River Press, Angel Rust Magazine, Driftwood Press, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, and Oyster River Pages, among others. He lives with his wife and chihuahua in Olympia, Washington.

 

Published Work


Same Faces Collective
Poetry, 2023
”Love in the Land of Shadows”

Same Faces Collective
Experimental prose, 2022

Ballad of Jason and Brett

Sunday Mornings at the River
3 Poems, 2022

”Baby Sappho In A Leather Jacket”

”Slime Puppy”

”Sister, Home Again”


Bottlecap Press
Chapbook, 2022

Spider Rodeo


Angel Rust Magazine
3 poems, 2022

"Shut Up! I Am Evil Now”

CYBER WOMAN ALIVE, YOU MIRACLE

”Gatekeep! Gaslight! Girlboss!”

Driftwood Press
Poem, 2022

”THERE IS A BLOOMING WRECK IN THE BODY BUT I WISH IT WAS A BLOOMING ONION INSTEAD”

Calliope’s Eyelash
Poem, 2022

”Palimpsest”

Lammergeier
Hybrid creative non-fiction, 2021

”Matrilineal”

Goats Milk Magazine
3 poems, 2021

”Girlhood Gothic”

”E.T. In Florida”

”Red Rover”

Oyster River Pages
Poem, 2021

”notes on a miscarriage”

Off Menu Press
Poem, 2021

”corazon di cenicero”

Glass: A Journal of Poetry
Poem, 2020

”THIS IS FEMININITY AS TASTE TEST”


Anti-Heroin Chic
2 poems, 2020

“I CAN’T WAIT FOR THE GNASHING OF TEETH,”

"a litany of scraped knees"


Spilt Milk - The Poetry Society of New York
Poem, 2020

“American Daughter

NTCH Magazine
Poem, 2018

“Every Woman a Venus in Scorpio"