Yesterday evening I walked up Beacon toward Commonwealth—not many people out. As if my presence caused it, all the streetlights blinked on at once. For a moment, I thought something else might happen: a chance encounter with a classmate, a twenty-dollar bill crumpled in the gutter, the perfect ending to a poem writing itself in […]
Aaron Caycedo-Kimura
Aaron Caycedo-Kimura is a writer and visual artist. He is the author of Ubasute, which won the 2020 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Competition, and the author of the full-length collection Common Grace, forthcoming from Beacon Press in Fall 2022. He is a recipient of a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship in Poetry and a St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award in Literature. His poetry has appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Poet Lore, DMQ Review, Tule Review, Louisiana Literature, The Night Heron Barks, and elsewhere. Aaron earned his MFA in creative writing from Boston University and is also the author and illustrator of Text, Don’t Call: An Illustrated Guide to the Introverted Life (TarcherPerigee, 2017).