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Rocio Franco

Rocío Franco is a Chicana poet from Chicago. She holds fellowships from The Watering Hole, Periplus Collective, and others. The Frost Place, VONA, Tin House, and StoryStudio have supported her work. She was selected for the 2026 Guild Literary Complex’s 35 Writers to Watch, a list that honors local writers whose careers represent the future of the literary arts in Chicago. Her poems have appeared in The Acentos Review, the Exposition Review, Lunch Ticket, L@tino Literatures Journal, AGNI, Mom Egg Review, and others. Her debut chapbook, Where the Monarchs Never Die, won the 2025 Arcana Poetry Press Chapbook Contest.

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Rocio Franco

Apr 3, 2026

National Poetry Month: “Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma”

A body can waste away quietly, carrying an enemy in its blood. It doesn’t want to fight; it wants to toil skin-deep in the blood.

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