Ariel Francisco Henriquez
Associate Professor
MFA, Queens College, CUNY and Florida International University
225-578-2867
arielfrancisco@lsu.edu
212A Allen Hall
Biography
Ariel Francisco is the author of four poetry collections, most recently All the Places We Love Have Been Left in Ruins (Burrow Press, 2024), and the translator of various poetry collections from Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, and Haiti. His work has been published in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Academy of American Poets, POETRY Magazine, the New York City Ballet, and elsewhere, and anthologized in A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker (2025), Latino Poetry: the Library of America Anthology (2024), and 100 Poems That Matter: An Academy of American Poets Anthology (2022). He received his BA in English Lit and MFA in Poetry from Florida International University, and an MFA in Literary Translation from Queens College CUNY.
Selected Publications:
Along the East River and in the Bronx Young Men Were Singning
Baton Bleu
Spring Comes and I Finally Throw Out the Last Flowers I Bought You
Insomnimiami
On the Shore of Lake Atitlan, Appearently I Ruined Breakfast
Seeing a UFO and Singing Frank Sanatra's "Fly Me To The Moon" Into the Night at the
Top of My Lungs
Area(s) of Interest
Poetry, Translation, Ecopoetics, Latin American Lit