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Lauren Camp
Lauren Camp
Born
New York
Alma materCornell University
Emerson College
Occupation(s)New Mexico Poet Laureate, writer and educator
AwardsDorset Prize
Arab American Book Award(finalist)
HonoursAstronomer in Residence at Grand Canyon National Park
Websitelaurencamp

Lauren Campis an Arab American poet. AsNew Mexico Poet Laureate(2022 to 2025), she has been honored with a2023 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship.In 2022, she was selected as Astronomer in Residence atGrand Canyon National Park.

Her book,Worn Smooth between Devourings(NYQ Books 2023), wasfeatured on New Mexico PBS.The Columbia Daily TribunesaidAn Eye in Each Square(River River Books, 2023) is "perhaps the finest collection of the year."One Hundred Hungers(Tupelo Press, 2016) was selected byDavid Wojahnfor the Dorset Prize,[1]and went on to win finalist citations for the Arab American Book Award,[2]the Housatonic Book Award[3]and the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize.[4]In reviewing the book,World Literature Todaydescribes "the oddity of diaspora within diaspora through evocative imagery and diction…and direct interrogation of political (and personal) drama.”[5]

Work

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According toJacqueline Kolosov,"One of Camp’s gifts is her ability to conjure both the historical and the mythic past and the joint terrain they inhabit, with a vividness that, at its best, captures moments infused with both sorrow and joy."[6]

Writing inPoet Lore,Margaret Randallsaid, "Camp pulls together and makes full sense of the questions that have nudged and troubled her…the places claimed by remembering and forgetting, the ways in which gender inhabits time and place, the identity she holds…"

Publishers Weeklysays of Camp's work, “There are smaller surprises that intertwine with this larger narrative… the ideas of loss and forgetting become more evident with each poem.”[7]

Electric Literature,in acknowledgingOne Hundred Hungersfor "7 Books of Poetry by Arab American Women," wrote "Camp is a master of the luscious line... It is one of the most sensuous books you’ll ever read and characteristic of the gorgeousness of her work."[8]

Washington Independent Review of Bookssays ofTook House,“It’s as if Camp is holding a magnifying glass in the light until the page beneath it catches fire,” andWorld Literature Today,in an "Editor’s Pick",states, “The ‘sinew and lava’ of both desire and loss pulse right beneath the surface of the poems…”

She is the subject of an episode ofGrace Cavalieri'sThe Poet and the Poemfor The Library of Congress[9]and a long-form interview by David Naimon onBetween the Covers.She has presented her poems at theMayo Clinic,the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities,The Georgia O'Keeffe Museumand theInternational Studies Institute.

Camp is an inauguralLand Line Resident with Denver Botanic Gardens.She was a juror for the 2014Neustadt International Prize for Literatureand was selected to be one of 100 international artists for100 Offerings of Peace.

Camp's writing has appeared inKenyon Review,Pleiades,Poet Lore,Waxwing,[10]Boston Review,[11]Crazyhorse,Beloit Poetry Journal,Weberand thePoem-a-Dayseries from The Academy of American Poets.[12]The Rumpuspublished a longinterviewwith Camp about her book,Took House.Her honors include a fellowship from the Black Earth Institute,[13]and translations of her poems to Turkish,[14]Spanish,[15]Arabic[16]and Mandarin.

Books

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  • In Old Sky,Grand Canyon Conservancy,2024. ISBN 978-1-934656-59-4
  • Worn Smooth between Devourings,NYQ Books, 2023.ISBN978-1-63045-102-8
  • An Eye in Each Square,River River Books, 2023.ISBN979-8-9881378-0-1
  • Took House,Tupelo Press,2020.ISBN978-1-946482-32-7
  • Turquoise Door,3: A Taos Press, 2018.ISBN978-0-9972011-9-2
  • One Hundred Hungers,Tupelo Press,2016.ISBN978-1-936797-72-1
  • The Dailiness,Edwin E. Smith Publishing, 2013.ISBN978-1-6192755-6-0
  • This Business of Wisdom,West End Press,2010.ISBN978-0-9826968-2-8

Honors

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References

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  1. ^ab"One Hundred Hungers wins the 2014 Tupelo Press Dorset Prize, judged by David Wojahn".
  2. ^ab"2017 Arab American Book Award Winners".
  3. ^ab"2017 Housatonic Book Award Winners and Finalists".
  4. ^ab"2016 Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize Winners".
  5. ^"World Literature Today".
  6. ^"Jacqueline Kolosov in Salamander".
  7. ^"Publishers Weekly".
  8. ^"Electric Literature".2 April 2021.
  9. ^"Library of Congress'" The Poet and the Poem "".
  10. ^Camp, Lauren."Waxwing".Waxwing.
  11. ^"Boston Review".
  12. ^"Poem-a-Day series from The Academy of American Poets".
  13. ^"2015-2018 Black Earth Institute Fellows".
  14. ^"Poems translated into Turkish at Escape into Life".
  15. ^"12 Poetas".
  16. ^"Arabic by Dunya Mikhail".
  17. ^"2014 RL International Poetry Award winners".
  18. ^"National Federation of Press Women's Prize".
  19. ^"2012 Anna Davidson Rosenberg Poetry Award winners".
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External audio
audio iconLauren Camp,The Poet and the Poem 2017-18 Series
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