Luisa Caycedo-Kimura
Luisa Caycedo-Kimura is a Colombian-born writer, translator, and educator. Her honors include a John K. Walsh Residency Fellowship at the Anderson Center, an Adrienne Reiner Hochstadt Fellowship at Ragdale, and a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship in Poetry. Her work has also been nominated for The Pushcart Prize. Luisa’s poems appear or are forthcoming in the Cincinnati Review, Sunken Garden Poetry 1992-2011, RHINO, Diode Poetry Journal, Mid-American Review, Nashville Review, the Night Heron Barks, and elsewhere.
Reading List
Queridas tías
Nueva York is a meat freezer and there’s no colors. Gray buildings, gray birds, gray bird poop on the metal swings. The only bright things are my thighs, red and purple from the cold. My friend Luz says her uncle lost a leg in Vietnam. He’s not the only one missing something. Across the courtyard […]
Drought
Aaron and I have been sleeping or trying to in separate twin beds in his childhood room for months We hide wine red and white between my bed and the wall Hama-san does not like us drinking We wake up before six to hear the last rattles of her breath Great egrets squawk on their […]
Cultivo
once mourning doves made me think of graveyards today they peck at weed seeds clean my land the oldest on record lived thirty years and four months from the time it was tagged until it was shot how many mates did it mourn American toads breed at the neighbor’s pond I wring laundry to hang […]
Posts
People, Places, and Playing with Words: David interviews Luisa Caycedo-Kimura
David Siew Hii, Shenandoah’s editorial fellow in poetry for issue 72.2, interviewed every poet in the issue. To showcase their voices, the questions in the interview were removed, leaving behind only the voice of the writer. In this interview, Luisa Caycedo-Kimura talks about the places she’s lived throughout her life and her passion for words. […]
Luisa Caycedo-Kimura Reads “Queridas tías”
Luisa Caycedo-Kimura, author of “Queridas tías” from Volume 72.2, reads her poem out loud.
Ibagué to Astoria
Luisa Caycedo-Kimura writes about home, family, and moving to a cold new place.