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Camonghne Felix: "The Lyric Essay as Poetic Praxis"

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Camonghne Felix: "The Lyric Essay as Poetic Praxis"

Center for Literary and Comparative Studies | College of Arts and Humanities | English Wednesday, April 23, 2025 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Tawes Hall, 2115

Please join the MFA program and CLCS for "The Lyric Essay as Poetic Praxis," a craft talk by Camonghne Felix.

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Camonghne Felix, poet and essayist, is the author of Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation (One World, 2023), which was hailed by TIME Magazine and Vogue as one of the most anticipated books of 2023 and top memoirs of 2023. Her poetry debut Build Yourself a Boat (Haymarket Books, 2019), was long-listed for the 2019 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 Academy of American Poets, Harvard Review, LitHub, The New Yorker, PEN America, Poetry Magazine, Freeman’s Journal and elsewhere. Her next full length work, Let the Poets Govern, is forthcoming from One World, an imprint of Penguin Random House.