Luis On Being Accepted

SouthBend, Don’t Love You, Indiana

After Joel Salcido’s Phoenix don’t love you

 


 
 
 
 
 
Luis Lopez-Maldonado is a Xicano poet born and raised in Orange County, CA. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California Riverside, majoring in Creative Writing and Dance. His poetry has been seen in The American Poetry Review, Cloudbank, The Packinghouse Review, Off Channel, and Spillway, among many others. He also earned a Master of Arts degree in Dance from Florida State University. He is currently a candidate for the Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing at the University of Notre Dame, where he is a poetry editorial assistant for the Notre Dame Review and founder of the men’s writing workshop in the St. Joseph County Juvenile Justice Center; he is also co-founder and editor at the The Brillantina Project. Photo credit: Melissa Artieda Photography