Aaron Caycedo-Kimura

Aaron Caycedo-Kimura is the author of Common Grace (Beacon Press, 2022) and Ubasute (Slapering Hol Press, 2021). His honors include a MacDowell Stanford Calderwood Fellowship, a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship in Poetry, a St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award in Literature, and nominations for The Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best New Poets anthologies. His work appears in Beloit Poetry Journal, RHINO, Plume, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere.

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Dad Called It Camp

Aaron Caycedo-Kimura  | 
Issue 73.2 Spring 2024

Tule Lake Jerome Arkansas the Santa Anita Racetrack but to me as a boy camp meant a green pup tent blue-and-white water jug Coleman gas stove packed in the back of our Ford Falcon wagon Mom Dad Mari me swaddled together two sleeping bags warm even in rain Mari with tight grip at each end of a stick gill-kebobbing five silvery fish Dad caught in the lake he said […]