Camonghne Felix
Camonghne Felix, poet and essayist, is the author of Dyscalculia, which was longlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and Build Yourself a Boat, which was longlisted for the National Book Award in poetry, shortlisted for the PEN/Open Book Awards, and shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Awards. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in the Academy of American Poets’ poets.org, Freeman’s, Harvard Review, LitHub, The New Yorker, PEN America, Poetry, and elsewhere. Her essays have been featured in Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, Teen Vogue, and other places. She is a professor of writing at The New School. Her latest book is Let the Poets Govern: A Declaration of Freedom. The book, part-memoir and part-manifesto, is an interpretation of Black radical literary traditions and reimagination of freedom through refusal.
Camonghne Felix, poet and essayist, is the author of Dyscalculia, which was longlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and Build Yourself a Boat, which was longlisted for the National Book Award in poetry, shortlisted for the PEN/Open Book Awards, and shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Awards. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in the Academy of American Poets’ poets.org, Freeman’s, Harvard Review, LitHub, The New Yorker, PEN America, Poetry, and elsewhere. Her essays have been featured in Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, Teen Vogue, and other places. She is a professor of writing at The New School. Her latest book is Let the Poets Govern: A Declaration of Freedom. The book, part-memoir and part-manifesto, is an interpretation of Black radical literary traditions and reimagination of freedom through refusal.
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