Lupita Eyde-Tucker is a bilingual poet and translator raised in New Jersey and Guayaquil, Ecuador. She is an MFA candidate at the University of Florida, and the winner of the 2021 Unbound Book Festival Emerging Poet Award. Lupita also won the 2019 Betty Gabehart Prize, and in 2018 was selected as an AWP Writer to Writer Mentee by poet Maggie Smith. In 2020-21 her chapbook manuscript was a finalist in the Black River Chapbook Competition, Frontier Poetry's Chapbook Contest, and Gloria Anzaldúa Prize, and a runner-up for the Chad Walsh Chapbook Prize from Beloit Poetry Journal. She is currently a staff scholar at Bread Loaf Translators Conference and Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and a scholarship recipient from the 2021 New York State Summer Writers Institute.
ha.
now i know what to call you
and stay in your good graces
smiles.
lups
i think is my fav.
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You just made me laugh out loud 🙂 good choice!
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Maggilu – what a lovely name & spelling ~
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Really love the variations!
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Ha! Nice! I love where you went with the prompt. 🙂
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Ha… this was fun.. many names is good.
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Yes! I know how this feels (I really, really don’t like being called ‘Sammy’) and a list poem is just a perfect way to put it!
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