Lucia LoTempio

she/her || Mpls || advocate for superlative || author of HOT WITH THE BAD THINGS (@AliceJamesBooks) || it's spelled L-o-T-e-m-p-i-o 🐙

[Lucia LoTempio @lucialo]

HOT WITH THE BAD THINGS is one year old ✨💫😱 My quarantine baby is growing up!!🌱🌺 So grateful for the love this book has brought! https://t.co/9L18Vapegk

[Perpetually Perpetua @sbrookcorfman]

enough! with “giving voice to the unsayable.” It’s unsayable. Give up!

[Perpetually Perpetua @sbrookcorfman]

My print copies of @kenyonreview arrived today—here’s my second poem included, inspired by the bleeding heart flowers that have been in my mom’s garden 5ever:

“The moon is not real;
neither is the soul…”

(& online at
https://t.co/VJ7IrD5DxG)

[Lucia LoTempio @lucialo]

@sbrookcorfman summer beauty!! 💙

[Lucia LoTempio @lucialo]

@sbrookcorfman @mag_gabbert @_s_cawley Came here to say this!! 🐴

[Lucia LoTempio @lucialo]

@sid_sivakumar Loved it! Was absolutely giddy when I cracked it. Best puzzle in a minute—cheers!

[Lucia LoTempio @lucialo]

@_s_cawley oh how i wish to kid!!!!

[Lucia LoTempio @lucialo]

@_s_cawley the young man who once came to my office hours with a hat that said DADDY and asked me if i had ever heard of "Howl"

[Lucia LoTempio @lucialo]

@MMicahJenkins lmao they had no business making him look & sound like that !!!

[Lucia LoTempio @lucialo]

finally started a video game (Hades) that favors my gaming style (playing very poorly & dying a lot)

[Lucia LoTempio @lucialo]

@amylizbishop been loving it!!

[Amy Bishop-Wycisk @abwycisk]

Found out today one of my poems is being republished in the 10th anniversary issue of @asterixjournal! Freshly back from AWP, this feels like kismet. Full of gratitude to Asterix! (&& also dying reading the updated contributor bios, holy crap. Everyone is so accomplished!)

[Perpetually Perpetua @sbrookcorfman]

One of my big AWP takeaways is that @_s_cawley has two manuscripts and someone should solicit & publish them…

[Lucia LoTempio @lucialo]

@steffantriplett @KekePalmer 👀