Dispatch by Cameron Awkward-Rich

In his second collection, Cameron Awkward-Rich reckons with American violence, while endeavoring to live and love in its shadow. Set against a media environment that saturates even our most intimate spaces, these poems grapple with news of racial and gendered violence in the United States today an in its past.

“The poems in Awkward-Rich’s second collection speak with a poised urgency out of profound, enduring fear imposed by impossibly huge forces… and steady themselves, when steadiness seems possible, on the fact of an undiminishable self beyond language”
—American Poets

Cameron Awkward-Rich is the author of Sympathetic Little Monster, a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. He is a Cave Canem fellow and a poetry editor for Muzzle Magazine. He earned his PhD from Stanford University’s program in Modern Thought & Literature, an he is an assistant professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.