Cameron Awkward-Rich is the author of two collections of poetry—Sympathetic Little Monster (Ricochet Editions, 2016) and Dispatch (Persea Books, 2019). Presently, he is an assistant professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Poetry
Jan/Feb 2022
It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times
and yet, even so, here we are, at the precipice of the new century: century of wildfire, century of war and perfect technology of war, where I live a happy […]
Poetry
Jan/Feb 2022
It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times
and when I surfaced from the latest weather—torrent of bad wind shuttering the blinds, so that I— or something like me—was lost and wandering again the stale room where I […]
Jan/Feb 2022
The Role of the Poet
There are many kinds of poetry, each with its own affordances, implicit politics, posture vis-à-vis the hegemonic definitions of Literature and Man, and while I understand the many arguments against […]