Lauren Camp

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Lauren Camp is the author of four books, most recently Turquoise Door. She is the recipient of the Dorset Prize, a fellowship from Black Earth Institute, and a finalist citation for the Arab American Book Award. Her work has been translated into Mandarin, Turkish, Spanish, and Arabic.

  • The cover to In Old Sky by Lauren Camp

    In Old Sky by Lauren Camp

    Lauren Camp
    Grand Canyon, Arizona. Grand Canyon Conservancy. 2024. 59 pages. It is no secret that the modern world has given us incredible advances in technology and a thousand ways to connect,…
  • The cover to Worn Smooth between Devourings by Lauren Camp

    Worn Smooth between Devourings by Lauren Camp

    Lauren Camp
    Beacon, New York. NYQ Books. 2023. 73 pages. I do not know of a word that encompasses the feelings of grief, anxiety, and utter calmness in one collected idea, but Lauren Camp has cr…
  • A verdant landscape stretches toward the horizon

    Parallels

    Winter 2020
    Lauren Camp
    Kristin Marie Enns-Kavanagh / Flickr Agnes Martin, Eye Hill Rural Municipality No. 382, Saskatchewan   The land moves            without qualm…
  • The cover to Turquoise Door: Finding Mabel Dodge Luhan in New Mexico by Lauren Camp

    Turquoise Door: Finding Mabel Dodge Luhan in New Mexico by Lauren Camp

    Lauren Camp
    Denver. 3: A Taos Press. 2018. 117 pages. Poet Lauren Camp takes us for a deep dive into the landscape and culture of New Mexico and its wealth of personality in her new book, Turquoise Door…
  • This view of Saturn’s rings from the “ringscape finale” series was among the last images Cassini sent back to Earth (September 13, 2017) / Courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

    A Poem for Cassini

    September 20, 2017 Lauren Camp
    This view of Saturn’s rings from the “ringscape finale” series was among the last images Cassini sent back to Earth (September 13, 2017) / Courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute…
  • The cover to One Hundred Hungers by Lauren Camp

    One Hundred Hungers by Lauren Camp

    Lauren Camp
    North Adams, Massachusetts. Tupelo Press. 2016. 91 pages.One Hundred Hungers is a book of exile, faith, and acceptance. Of flavor, desire, and violation. Poet Lauren Camp confides in us what…
  • Tony Webster, Dakota Access Pipeline protest at the Sacred Stone Camp near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, August 25, 2016

    Noir

    September 15, 2016 Lauren Camp
    Tony Webster, Dakota Access Pipeline protest at the Sacred Stone Camp near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, August 25, 2016This poem addresses the demonstrations against the Dakota Access Pipel…

  • Two Poems

    January 2013
    Lauren Camp
    Letter to BaghdadEven if my father never speaks a word of it, I will knowhe brought a candle, a cough, and the occupied side of his heart.I will know the trees held him, that they rose above rooflines…
  • Tigris River

    Surrendering to the Unsaid

    January 7, 2013 Lauren Camp
    The Tigris River in Baghdad. Photo NewsHour/FlickrFor nearly two years, I worked on poems about my father’s early years in Baghdad. Every now and again, I slipped an occasional question to my dad, hop…

  • Two Poems by Lauren Camp

    January 2013
    Lauren Camp
    Photo by Bu Yousef/FlickrAt the Market in Baghdad, 1940Every morning the elder took his sons to pray,then let them swim through the heat of the dijlawhile he and his servant went to market, t…

  • What You Might Hear

    March 2011
    Lauren Camp
    When I realized I could make mistakes . . . I decided I was really on to something. — Ornette Coleman              …

  • Thelonious Monk on a Subway

    March 2011
    Lauren Camp
     I met Monk      on a subway, coming through the tunnel.          His words fell out be-     tween thick…

  • What's in the Notes: The Sound of Jazz in Poetry

    March 2011
    Lauren Camp
    Listening suggestion: While reading Camp's essay, listen to Louis Armstrong’s version of the Fats Waller song “Black and Blue," available for streaming on YouTube.Can a writer ever hope to succes…