Alejandro Escuda Wins SPC Book Contest 2012
The Sacramento Poetry Center has announced that Alejandro Escude's "My Earthbound Eye" is the winner of its 2012 Manuscript Contest. The book will be published by the SPC Press. Alejandro Escude [ http://www.alejandroescude.com/ ] is a high school English teacher in Los Angeles and a graduate from the MA creative writing program at U.C. Davis. Previously, his work has been published in: Poet Lore, Rattle, Phoebe, California Quarterly, Blind Man’s Rainbow, Lucid Moon, Paris/Atlantic, Offerings, Möbius , and Tucumcari Literary Review . Before graduating from U.C. Davis, he won the 2003 University of California Poet Laureate contest. His work also appeared in in an anthology entitled How to Be This Man , published by Swan Scythe Press. His chapbook entitled Where Else But Here was published by March Street Press, December 2005. A second chapbook, Unknown Physics , was published by March Street Press in 2007. Originally from Córdoba, Argentina, he write...