Francesco Levato
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Francesco Levato
@levato.bsky.social
Poet, professor, literary translator, new media artist, and writer of speculative fiction. M.F.A., Ph.D., HWA #horror #scifi #fantasy #booksky

Web: https://francescolevato.com/
Well, I’m not getting anything done today #cats #caturday
September 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
How about a cat and friend pic? #cats
August 8, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Or, a griffin (not spooky, but wouldn’t want to meet one in a dark alley)
July 12, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Eldritch tentacles
July 12, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Ahem… treats?!

#cats #caturday (early)
July 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
My legs will never survive sabbatical. #caturday
March 30, 2025 at 1:14 AM
January 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Thought I'd post some #glitch #art outtakes from my last book SCARLET (#digital visual #erasure #poems). These started as original photographic still lifes which I then glitched and composited with other glitched images in Photoshop. Here's the first: Resin Skull. #Horror #ScarletOuttakes
December 16, 2024 at 10:51 PM
So, this is how final paper grading is going. That’s my lap they’re lounging on, and up top is the keyboard they’re keeping me from using. #cats
December 11, 2024 at 5:48 PM
Hello friends, join us this Saturday at the SDPF24 Coda Poetry Festival, San Diego.

FIGHTING POEMS
2:35-3:35
UCSD Cross-Cultural Center > Library

Alissa Tu
Bara’ah Oriqat
Francesco Levato
hamsa fae
Sonia Gutiérrez
Ted Washington

Schedule: tinyurl.com/SDPF24CODA

#Poetry #WritingCommunity
December 8, 2024 at 7:11 PM
November 29, 2024 at 6:09 AM
Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie.
November 27, 2024 at 7:32 AM
Very excited to have Bone Carver's Elegy in Crow & Cross Keys!

You can read it here:
crowcrosskeys.com/2024/04/17/b...

#newfiction #fiction #Horror #DarkFantasy #WritingCommunity 📚😱
April 17, 2024 at 10:20 PM
Yep. Cat, lap, numb leg.
April 9, 2024 at 1:06 AM
Jealous! All I got was a glowing blobsquatch
April 8, 2024 at 9:56 PM
Post a pic you took at sunset. No description other than alt text
April 7, 2024 at 5:50 AM
If you see this, I invite you to post a picture from your device without explanation.
February 29, 2024 at 10:00 PM
Excited to have new dark/horror poems in Quail Bell, an awesome intersectional feminist arts magazine.

Read them here:

No Shadow, No Faintly Outlined Face
tinyurl.com/bdduyj6e

Waking Her Not to Dissipate
tinyurl.com/4ytbyptz

#horrorlit #HorrorCommunity #WritingCommunity 💀🛠️
January 26, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Excited to share that my flash piece "Bone Carver's Elegy" has found a home at the darkly beautiful journal, Crow & Cross Keys. Scheduled for April issue.

crowcrosskeys.com

#horrorlit #HorrorCommunity #WritingCommunity 💀🛠️
January 7, 2024 at 7:34 PM
Back to the holidays for this #horror #VisualWritingPrompt. If you're so inclined, write a 300-ish character story inspired by this image. Genres: #scifilit #horrorlit #fantasylit

Tag your story with #mlit and if you like, please repost.

#HorrorCommunity #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt 💀🛠️
December 17, 2023 at 7:25 PM
So… this is how grading final papers is going.
December 13, 2023 at 11:46 PM
Happy to have two micro-fiction pieces in the Dark Moments Year 5 Anthology, by Black Hare Press.

You can read "The Walker" and "What Remains" here: www.blackharepress.com/year-five/

#horrorlit 💀🛠️
December 12, 2023 at 7:33 PM
A bit of the weird for this week's horror #VisualWritingPrompt. If you're so inclined, write a 300-ish character story inspired by this image. Genres: #scifilit #horrorlit #fantasylit

Tag your story with #mlit and if you like, please repost.

#WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt 💀🛠️
December 7, 2023 at 7:31 PM
A winter wonderland for this week's horror #VisualWritingPrompt. If you're so inclined, write a 300-ish character story inspired by this image. Genres: #scifilit #horrorlit #fantasylit

Tag your story with #mlit and if you like, please repost.

#WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt 💀🛠️
November 29, 2023 at 9:57 PM
Awards Eligibility 2023! I’ve had a fortunate publishing year and I’m grateful for my publishers and readers. If you read and enjoy any of these pieces, I hope you will consider nominating them for any awards they might be eligible for.

Full list here: francescolevato.com/2023/11/awar...
November 21, 2023 at 11:09 PM