Lupe
aka Lupita
Lupi
Lulu
Lups
Maggilu
and Lu
But never, ever, Guadalupe.
Lupe
aka Lupita
Lupi
Lulu
Lups
Maggilu
and Lu
But never, ever, Guadalupe.
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Lupita Eyde-Tucker is a bilingual poet and translator raised in New Jersey and Guayaquil, Ecuador. She is the winner of the 2021 Unbound Book Festival Emerging Poet Award, the 2019 Betty Gabehart Prize, and in 2018 was selected as an AWP Writer to Writer Mentee by poet Maggie Smith. In 2022 her poetry manuscript, "Eucalyptus," was a finalist for the Andrés Montoya Prize from Letras Latinas.
Lupita's English translation of Venezuelan poet Oriette D'Angelo's collection, "Homeland of Swarms," was published in 2024 by co•im•press and was recently named a finalist for the 2025 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation and winner of the 2024 Florida Book Award Bronze Medal in Poetry.
Lupita holds an MFA in Creative Writing - Poetry from the University of Florida, and served as a staff scholar at Bread Loaf Translators Conference from 2021 to 2023. She is a Vermont Studio Center Fellow and has received generous institutional support from Bread Loaf Writers Conferences, Poesiaeuropa, the Kentucky Women Writers Conference, and New York State Summer Writers Institute. She is a 2022 Best New Poet and has received numerous Pushcart Prize nominations. She loves visiting the beach with her family, watching baseball, playing volleyball and word games, dancing, darkrooms, black and white film photography, road trips, live music, and trains.
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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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