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Finalist! Luz Like Love

12/14/2022

 
Thrilled to share that my chapbook "Luz Like Love" was selected as a finalist for the Alta California Chapbook Prize. 

While I didn't win this time, it's good to know this little book is on the right track.

Congratulations to all the winners, honorable mention, and finalists:
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ALTA CALIFORNIA CHAPBOOK PRIZE

​The winners of the second Alta California Prize, selected by Francisco Aragón from an incredibly rich collection of submissions, are: 

Florencia Milito‘s 
Sor Juana 

and 

Gabriel Ibarra‘s 
On Display. 

Francisco also recognized 
Felipe De La Rosa‘s 
Summer Blooms in Paramount as an honorable mention. 

In addition to the winners and honorable mention,
eight poets were distinguished as finalists including:

​Elaine Alarcon, Blood Echoes 
Li Yun Alvarado, Luz Like Love
Kenneth Chacon, How the Cholo Became a Mystic & Other Dreamer Poems
Tomas Moniz, Theory of Falling Bodies
Melinda Palacio, Alamar
Jorge Quintana, Dying in America
Linda Ravenswood, A Poem Is a House
Danny Romero, My Father’s Friends

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