Thanks so much for the suggestion, but no, unfortunately nothing happened when I pinched. I tried various movements around the screen and for a moment I somehow got a zoomed out view with all of my screens that might have had delete capability, but then I lost it and couldn't get it back. I'm not a complete novice; I've used GoLauncher for a while, but haven't used it for a few months so this is a new version to me on a new phone, Galaxy S4. Other ideas?
Really, it shouldn't be this hard to find out how to do basic functions in Go, should it? I Googled for a good half hour before giving up and posting here because all the suggestions online are for older versions of Go. How about at least some up to date faqs somewhere, developers?