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Statement of Purpose

any way you slice it i was born for a good time

some of my primary interests include pomp
circumstance
occasion
and carousing

love a kickback and a kiki
very much love a tea

weddings
graduations
meg’s monday night birthday function i stayed at waaaay too late for a monday night

i’m mariah carey on qvc repeatedly describing herself
and everything she loves as “festive”

i’m andré leon talley specifying he wear a caftan
for his cremation

my dearest ellery said he can’t remember a boring day in his life
i’m free will agnostic
but with each conscious choice toward that ethos

the need for sleep
the need to labor
two little devils strapped to my back who synergize
to ruin quality time

just rude
needy
and greedy

depending on who you ask
i’m going to hell and all my girls are too
i’m afterlife agnostic but if some kind of something comes next
what else to call it besides the afters, the very last afters

and if my girls are there with me
i’m good

we’ll know who to haunt and do it well
dressed to the nines in maggot-drenched couture

Copyright © 2026 by Kyle Carrero Lopez. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on June 1, 2026, by the Academy of American Poets.

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Poem-a-Day is the original and only daily digital poetry series featuring over 250 new, previously unpublished poems by today’s talented poets each year. Sam Sax is the Guest Editor for June. Read or listen to a Q&A with Sax about their curatorial process, and learn more about the 2026 Guest Editors. Support Poem-a-Day.  

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Previous Poems

Title Author Date
Ultrasound Kaveh Akbar 05/02/2019
A Skull Dana Levin 05/01/2019
Miscegenation Nick Laird 04/30/2019
in lieu of a poem, i’d like to say Danez Smith 04/29/2019
An Adieu Florence Earle Coates 04/28/2019
Fides, Spes Willa Cather 04/27/2019
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [When James Baldwin & Audre Lorde each lend] Terrance Hayes 04/26/2019
Nearly Idra Novey 04/25/2019
The Wound Before the Tomb of Walt Whitman Fernando Valverde 04/24/2019
Fall Didi Jackson 04/23/2019

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