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Poet Lauren Camp was selected as the fourth Astronomer-in-Residence at Grand Canyon National Park. She spent a month in Grand Canyon exploring the Park‘s pristine natural darkness and night phenomena, as well as the vast power of the Canyon itself. In Old Sky grew out of that experience. This is the first poetry book published by Grand Canyon ...
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Lauren Camp is an Arab American poet. As New Mexico Poet Laureate (2022 to 2025), she has been honored with a 2023 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship. In 2022, she was selected as Astronomer in Residence at Grand Canyon National Park . Her book, Worn Smooth between Devourings (NYQ Books 2023), was featured on New Mexico PBS.
Writer and educator Lauren Camp works in the confluence of sound, psychology and language. New Mexico Poet Laureate Lauren Camp is the author of eight poetry collections, most recently In Old Sky (Grand Canyon Conservancy, 2024). She was awarded a 2023 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship.
Dec 2, 2023 · “Lauren Camp will make an exceptional State Poet Laureate. She is not only a talented poet of national renown, but a gifted teacher with exciting ideas about how to engage the people of New Mexico in the writing, reading, and overall enjoyment of poetry,” said Michelle Laflamme-Childs, executive director of New Mexico Arts.
Lauren Camp is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently An Eye in Each Square (River River Books, 2023). Winner of the Dorset Prize, Camp has also received fellowships from the Black Earth Institute and the Taft-Nicholson Center. In 2023, she was named an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow.
Lauren Camp is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently An Eye in Each Square (River River Books, 2023); Worn Smooth Between Devourings (NYQ Books, 2023); and Took House (Tupelo Press, 2020). Her work has been translated into Arabic, Mandarin, Spanish, and Turkish. Winner of the Dorset Prize, Camp has also received fellowships from ...
Lauren Camp is the author of five books, most recently Took House (Tupelo Press, 2020). Her poems have appeared in many journals, including the New England Review, Poetry International, Slice, the Boston Review, Third Coast, World Literature Today, and the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day.
