Features
The Cincinnati Review: “The Craft of Silence” featuring Hot with the Bad things
Jenny Molberg on the ethics and craft of crime writing, reviewing Hot with the Bad Things in the Cincinnati Review.
“[LoTempio’s] poems extend beyond the felt boundaries of the self, risking a movement past silence.”
TINDERBOX: interview + Review of Hot with the Bad Things
Madeleine Barnes interviews Lucia and reviews Hot With the Bad Things in Tinderbox Poetry Journal.
“To read LoTempio is to walk away singed, cauterized, and full of wonder at what has been buried, unearthed, and transmuted through lyric.”
swell: Conversation with Bowie Rowan
Bowie Rowan hosts a conversation with Lucia on Swell, a new voice-based social platform.
a best book 0f 2020
Hot with the Bad Things is named among the magazine’s picks for favorite books of 2020. Lucia’s debut is featured with a micro-review.
The Colorado Review: Review of Hot with the Bad Things
Kelly Weber reviews Hot with the Bad Things in The Colorado Review.
“Part of what makes Hot with the Bad Things so powerful is how LoTempio considers the way violence corrupts or obliterates language itself.”
The Harvard Crimson: Review of Hot with the Bad Things
Harper R. Oreck reviews Hot with the Bad Things in The Harvard Crimson.
“...the lyric succeeds as a contemporary feminist work weaving together complex social and personal topics with formal creativity and ringing, beautiful phrasing”
Debut Revue Reading
Debut Revue is a new online reading series that features and celebrates four debut poets whose book launches have been disrupted by the ongoing pandemic. Lucia was featured in this inaugural reading, along with poets Jessica Q. Stark, George Abraham & Leila Chatti.
the poetry Question: Review of Hot with the Bad Things
Christopher Margolin reviews Hot with the Bad Things, featured on The Poetry Question.
“Sometimes you need to set a house on fire to wake up the world – or at least those around you. If there’s a necessary read with which to do just that, it is Hot with the Bad Things.”
Hot with the bad things debuts!
Hot with the Bad Things is officially out from Alice James Books! You can get your copy from your favorite indie bookstore! Learn more about the book here.
Ms. Magazine’s May Reads for the rest of Us
Hot with the Bad Things is highlighted on Ms. Magazine’s May book recommendations, as chosen by Bookmarks editor, Karla Strand.
Interview with Frontier Poetry
On Frontier Poetry’s Virtual Book Tour Series, Lucia gave an interview on Hot with the Bad Things and her process on writing. Included is an excerpt from the book!
Publishers weekly review
Publishers Weekly publishes a first review of Hot with the Bad Things, calling the style “a candid confessionalism” and characterizing the book as “an affecting example of how to write about violence, witness, and memory.”
a feminist book of 2020
Writer Karla Strand names Hot with the Bad Things among her picks for feminist books of 2020 as part of her Feminist Know-It-All series at Ms. Lucia’s debut is featured with a micro-review.
Befriend a Book Campaign
Alice James Books invites you to participate in their 2019 summer giving campaign to support forthcoming books that matter by “befriending a book."
Befriend Hot with the Bad Things anytime this July, and receive a signed, digital broadside featuring an excerpt from Lucia’s book. Each broadside will feature a different excerpt and can be shared across your favorite online mediums or printed and framed!
PBS BOOKS InterviEw
Rich Fahle from PBS Books sits down with Lucia at AWP 2019 in Portland to talk about her work at the literary nonprofit City of Asylum.
reading from hot with the bad things
Clip from a recent reading featuring Lucia.
SIrens visualized by neo sora
Originally published by Washington Square Review, Lucia’s poem "Sirens" was visualized by filmmaker Neo Sora through the Visible Poetry Project.