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Cameron Awkward-Rich

Cameron Awkward-Rich

Cameron Awkward-Rich

Poet and writer Cameron Awkward-Rich is the author of the full-length poetry collections An Optimism (Persea Books, 2025), Dispatch (Persea Books, 2019), and Sympathetic Little Monster (Ricochet Editions, 2016), as well as the chapbook Transit (Button Poetry, 2015). Awkward-Rich is also the author of The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment (Duke University Press, 2022). A Cave Canem fellow, he earned a PhD from Stanford University. He teaches women, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and is an editor at Muzzle Magazine and HEArt. (Source)

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Poems by Cameron Awkward-Rich

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Meditations in an Emergency by Cameron Awkward-Rich

October 3, 2025
“There’s a dream I have in which I love the world. I run from end to end like fingers through her hair. There are no borders, only wind.” — Cameron Awkward-Rich
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Meditations in an Emergency by Cameron Awkward-Rich

August 21, 2025
“There’s a dream I have in which I love the world.” — Cameron Awkward-Rich
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Meditations in an Emergency by Cameron Awkward-Rich

October 8, 2022
"Like you, I was raised in the institution of dreaming." — Cameron Awkward-Rich