About Alejandro Lucero and The Cincinnati Review

Today's poem is "Poem for my teeth. I can't keep / you"

from The Cincinnati Review

Alejandro Lucero is a writer from Sapello, New Mexico. His debut chapbook, Sapello Son, was named the Editors' Selection for the 2022 Frost Place Competition and is forthcoming with Bull City Press. A 2022 June Fellow at the Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets, as well as a two-time Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, his recent work can be found in The Adroit Journal, The Cincinnati Review, The Offing, Salamander, and Salt Hill, where he was a finalist for the Philip Booth Prize judged by Matt Rasmussen. He lives in Denver and serves as a senior editor for Copper Nickel.
Other poems on the web by Alejandro Lucero:
"Portrait of My Dad the Self-Taught Weatherman with Hammer Blackened Nails and Grito"
"My Sister's Baby Blanket"
"My Brother Julian's Apple Core"
"Con Tus Ojos"
"Pop Quiz with Ninth-Inning Sweats"
"My Crazy Aunt Celeste Who Makes The Worst Bean Potato Tacos In All Of Taos"
"Sapello Son"
Alejandro Lucero's Website.
Alejandro Lucero on Twitter.
About The Cincinnati Review:

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March 29, 2021: "What Is Caged Is Also Kept From Us" by Ada Limón
March 11, 2021: "The Facebook Elegies" by Bruce Bond
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September 11, 2020: "The Wall" by Jose Hernandez Diaz
September 10, 2020: "God is God and the Universe is the Universe" by Leah Umansky
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August 18, 2019: "Triptych Just before Mass" by C. T. Salazar
August 17, 2019: "Dear Millennium, on the Extinction of Migrant Doves" by Karen An-Hwei Lee
March 20, 2019: "My Sparrow" Susan Austin
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February 8, 2017: "Vs. Field" by Leah Poole Osowski
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November 27, 2012: "Inoperable" by Andrea Cohen
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