Screen door slam
lemonade fan
night reaching forever
into lush trees
everything echoes
lightning bug time
cricket star chime
warm evening
slow, honey
suckled breeze
Summer Time
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Lupita Eyde-Tucker
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 she was a finalist for the Andrés Montoya Prize from Letras Latinas. Lupita is completing an MFA in Creative Writing - Poetry at the University of Florida, and will be a staff scholar at Bread Loaf Translators Conference in June 2023.
She has received institutional support from Bread Loaf Writers Conferences, the Kentucky Women Writers Conference, New York State Summer Writing Institute, and was a Vermont Studio Center Fellow in 2022. Lupita translates poetry from Spanish and is currently translating Venezuelan poet Oriette D'Angelo. She loves visiting the beach with her chidlren, volleyball, word games, black and white film photography, road trips, and trains.
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- Andres Montoya Poetry Prize Finalist!
- In the Classroom with O, Miami
- On Motherhood and Being an Artist
- Pushcart Prize Nomination for “Knee on Dirt”
- 2021 Chad Walsh Chapbook Prize Runner-Up
- Finalist x 3: Sewanee, Georgia Review, Naugatuck Review
- “Ode to the Quinceañera Dress” finalist in River Heron Poetry Prize
- “Self Portrait con Valencia” on Women’s Voices for Change
- “Ode to la Conquista” Honorable Mention in Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2019
- How to Ride a Train in the Andes – 2020 Sandy Crimmins National Prize in Poetry Runner Up!
- Año Viejo – A Poem for New Year’s Eve
- Translation: Question of Lust
- Creek Lover – A Chapbook!
- Sábado en Alausí / Saturday in Alausí
- Self Portrait Con Naranja
- 2019 Betty Gabehart Prize for Poetry!
- Heart Diseases on Asymptote!
- Guest Poet: Isabel Alvear
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- Reading at The Betsy March 7th!
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