Cameron Awkward-Rich

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Cameron Awkward-Rich is the author of Sympathetic Little Monster (Ricochet Editions, 2016), which was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. He is a Cave Canem fellow, a poetry editor for Muzzle Magazine, and his second collection of poetry, Dispatch, is forthcoming from Persea Books in December 2019. Also a critic, Cameron earned his PhD from Stanford University's program in Modern Thought & Literature, and he is an assistant professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Currently, he is working on a book about maladjustment in trans literature and theory. Source

Excerpt from "[BLACK FEELING]"

Somewhere, there’s a room where things go

to lose their names. A rose becomes [    ]. A

daughter becomes [   ]. Her son [   ].

Published:

2018

Length:

Shorty

Literary Movements:

Contemporary

Anthology Years:

2023

Themes:

Ars Poetica

Identity

Literary Devices:

Metaphor

a comparison between two unrelated things through a shared characteristic

Varied Punctuation

diverse use of punctuation.