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 an MFA candidate at the University of Florida, and the winner of the 2019 Betty Gabehart Prize for Poetry. She was selected as an AWP Writer to Writer Mentee by poet Maggie Smith. In 2020 her poems were finalists in the Sewanee Review Poetry Contest, Loraine Williams Poetry Prize, River Heron Review Poetry Prize, and her chapbook manuscript was a finalist in the Black River Chapbook Competition, Frontier Poetry's Chapbook Contest, and Gloria Anzaldúa Prize.
Latest
- 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
- Asymptote’s Translation Tuesday: Forbidden to Pass By and Stay
- Reading at The Betsy March 7th!
- Tres poemas de Lupita Eyde-Tucker
- Ode to Guayaquil
- Crab on the Loose
- Rules of Engagement
- Pushcart Prize 2017 Nominees
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