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Alejandro Lucero

Alejandro Lucero’s chapbook, Sapello Son, was named the Editors’ Selection for the Frost Place Competition (Bull City Press, 2024). His work appears in Best New Poets, Cincinnati Review, Gulf Coast, Southern Review, and Waxwing. He lives in Baltimore, where he is a Salter Lecturer in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins and a senior editor for The Hopkins Review.

Poetry  – 

•Bedtime Story for a Father

On a shelf between photos of his family sits a row of dusty candles / a father never lights. The electricity’s out. In the hot summer night, bugs / find their way in the dark. In a scramble for matches, the father creeps / around the couch where his daughter’s sleeping. He’s thinking of the flour tortillas / he rolled all morning, and his little girl, who dreams of snow and ice, / and he thinks, too, about bugs coming through the windows, the pipes. . . .