Build Yourself a Boat - Hardcover
Build Yourself a Boat - Hardcover
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by Camonghne Felix (Author)
- Camonghne Felix is a rising star associated with Haymarket's very successful BreakBeat Poets cohort, which includes Eve Ewing, Mahogany L. Browne, Jamila Woods, Kevin Coval, Nate Marshall, Fatimah Asghar, and many others.
- Following on the success of Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric, and the ongoing prominence of Black Lives Matter movement, there is a renewed interest in poetry and prose that documents the Black experience in America.
Author Biography
Camonghne Felix, M.A. is a poet, political strategist, media junkie and cultural worker. She received an M.A. in Arts Politics from NYU, an MFA from Bard College, and has received Fellowships from Cave Canem, Callaloo and Poets House. The 2012 Pushcart Prize nominee is the author of the chapbook Yolk, and was recently listed by Black Youth Project as a Black Girl From the Future You Should Know. Her first full-length collection of poems, Build Yourself a Boat, was a 2017 University of Wisconsin Press Brittingham & Pollak Prize finalist, and a 2017 Fordham University Poets Out Loud semi-finalist.
