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Luisa Caycedo-Kimura

@luisacaycedokimura.bsky.social

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Colombian-born, NYC raised, poet, translator, educator. Author: All Were Limones (The Word Works, 2025), winner of Hillary Than Capital Collection Competition. Journals: Denver Quarterly, The Cincinnati Review, Shenandoah, Rattle, Mid-American Review, etc.

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Luisa Caycedo-Kimura @luisacaycedokimura.bsky.social · Jul 27

So happy to see this book in print! I fell in love with this collection when judging the 2025 Grayson Books Chapbook Contest. Great for the Sealey Challenge. tinyurl.com/ph22txws

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Driftwood Press @driftwoodpress.bsky.social · Jul 27

You have until Thursday, July 31st to submit to our Adrift Writing Contests! Use the link in our bio for details and to submit. #deadlineextended #writingcontest

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Luisa Caycedo-Kimura @luisacaycedokimura.bsky.social · Jul 27

Next Saturday at JustBook_ish in Dorchester, MA. We would love to see you.

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Luisa Caycedo-Kimura @luisacaycedokimura.bsky.social · May 22

Today’s visitor 🧸♥️

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Gabe Montesanti @gabemontesanti.bsky.social · May 5

Graphic Lit prize is open for another month @solsticelitmag.bsky.social which has been a joy to work with. Submit.

Solstice Literary Magazine @solsticelitmag.bsky.social · May 2

A graphic novelist was among this year's Whiting Award recipients -- we love reading graphic lit. at Solstice, too!

The prize for the winning graphic lit. entry in our summer contest is $500 and will be selected by final judge Bhanu Pratap.

Submit: solsticelitmag.submittable.com/submit/19575...

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Luisa Caycedo-Kimura @luisacaycedokimura.bsky.social · Apr 23

Many thanks to the @driftwoodpress.bsky.social editors for including one of my poems and an interview in this beautiful anthology.

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Luisa Caycedo-Kimura @luisacaycedokimura.bsky.social · Apr 20

Luisa Caycedo-Kimura @luisacaycedokimura.bsky.social · Apr 8

❤️❤️❤️

Luisa Caycedo-Kimura @luisacaycedokimura.bsky.social · Apr 7

Yay!!! Congratulations!!!

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Sean Thomas Dougherty @seanthomasd.bsky.social · Apr 7

"Everything we write
will be used against us
or against those we love.
These are the terms,
take them or leave them.
Poetry never stood a chance
of standing outside history."

Adrienne Rich, from "North American Time"

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Luisa Caycedo-Kimura @luisacaycedokimura.bsky.social · Apr 7

Author copies! (Yes, those are tears in my eyes.) So grateful to The Word Works, especially to Nancy White and @bradrichard.bsky.social . Thank you!

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The Slowdown @slowdownshow.org · Mar 25

Read “The Rain, Life, and Other Things” by Leah Umansky @leahumansky.bsky.social: bit.ly/4l1QnyH

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Luisa Caycedo-Kimura @luisacaycedokimura.bsky.social · Mar 28

Unfortunately, I am not able to be at AWP, but my book is there! Just to clarify—these are pre-release copies of my book. Stop by The Word Works' table (booth 1001).

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Luisa Caycedo-Kimura @luisacaycedokimura.bsky.social · Mar 28

Slapering Hol Press is delighted to announce that @jemmaleighroe.bsky.social’s Running with the Hare, winner of the 2024 SHP Chapbook Competition is now available for preorder!

www.writerscenter.org/product-page...

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JP Dancing Bear @jpdancingbear.bsky.social · Mar 27

Today's poem is "Mars Changing Her Name"
by Kenneth Pobo
from At the Window, Silence
All Subscribers got to hear this poet from their inbox!
www.versedaily.org/2025/marscha...

www.versedaily.org

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The Latinx Project @latinxprojnyu.bsky.social · Mar 27

“At Hunter College in the 1970s, though, there was no one to exchange any ethnic or background ideas. I don’t recall any Latinas in my graduate art classes.” —Evelyn López de Guzmán #repost

Evelyn López de Guzmán in Her Own Words — The Latinx Project at NYU

Evelyn López de Guzmán's talks about the trajectory of her career after leaving New York.

www.latinxproject.nyu.edu

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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · Mar 26

Family, history, and identity are what @aaroncaycedokimura.bsky.social’s poetry is all about. And he’s obsessed with trying to come to terms (in verse!) with who he is and what it is that he’s inherited. #PoetryIsLife

On Family, History, and Identity in My Poetic Practice

A Q&A with Aaron Caycedo-Kimura | I teach Introduction to Creative Writing at Trinity College in Hartford, CT, where most of my students are freshmen and sophomores. The goal of the course is to give ...

www.beaconbroadside.com

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Derek JG Williams @derekjgwilliams.bsky.social · Feb 26

My forthcoming collection has a cover & is now available for preorder at the link below!

www.lightscatterpress.org/product-page...

#poetry #poetrylovers #poets #poems #poetrycommunity

Image of water upon water in blue, green, and red.

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Luisa Caycedo-Kimura @luisacaycedokimura.bsky.social · Mar 25

Foggy sunrise. Sleepy morning,

Luisa Caycedo-Kimura @luisacaycedokimura.bsky.social · Mar 24

And more.

Luisa Caycedo-Kimura @luisacaycedokimura.bsky.social · Mar 24

And concision.

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Luisa Caycedo-Kimura @luisacaycedokimura.bsky.social · Mar 19

Congratulations!

Luisa Caycedo-Kimura @luisacaycedokimura.bsky.social · Mar 19

I’m delighted to announce that All Were Limones is now available for preorder from The Word Works! wordworksbooks.org/product/all-...

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Luisa Caycedo-Kimura @luisacaycedokimura.bsky.social · Mar 17

Definitely. The first few sentences are often an on ramp for the poem and end up deleted (or needing to be deleted) later.