Acclaimed poet Lauren Camp to make presentation ‘Migration and Exile' at ISU Sept. 9
August 29, 2019
POCATELLO – Acclaimed poet Lauren Camp will give the presentation and reading titled “Migration and Exile” at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 9 in 色花堂app’s Bengal Café, inside of the Pond Student Union Building.
The event, hosted by the ISU creative writing, is free and the public is encouraged to attend.
Camp is the author of three books of poetry, most recently 鈥淭urquoise Door鈥� (2018). Her 2016 volume 鈥淥ne Hundred Hungers鈥� was selected by David Wojahn for the prestigious Dorset Prize from Tupelo Press. World Literature Today鈥檚 review finds that 鈥�鈥極ne Hundred Hungers鈥� truly inspires readers to hunger for all the things that Camp details about the cultures within the text鈥� and that 鈥渢he book carries the soul of someone with deep empathy who understands what it means to be an outsider.鈥� Publisher鈥檚 Weekly writes that 鈥淐amp distills grief, loss, and transition, each becoming a kind of theft, and the poems strive to reclaim and recover what can be salvaged.鈥�
Camp draws on this book for her presentation. She describes 鈥淥ne Hundred Hungers鈥� as 鈥渁 work of imagination, research and myth about my father鈥檚 childhood in Baghdad, and my interaction with the rituals and language of his Jewish-Iraqi culture.鈥� The books themes can lead to intriguing conversations about 鈥渉eritage, boundaries, war societies, and lost cultures.鈥�
Camp has given readings and presentations on migrations, dementia, and southwestern history at such organizations as the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities, the Mayo Clinic, Georgetown University, the International Studies Institute at the University of New Mexico and the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.
Her poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including Crazyhorse, Boston Review, The Los Angeles Review, Poet Lore and The Academy of American Poets鈥� Poem-a-Day, and been translated into Turkish, Mandarin, Arabic and Spanish.
Camp lives in New Mexico, where she teaches through the state鈥檚 Poetry Out Loud program, The Georgia O鈥橩eeffe Museum鈥檚 Art and Leadership program, and Santa Fe Community College.
Camp鈥檚 visit is made possible by support from the ISU Department of Political Science, ISU鈥檚 Department of English and Philosophy and Black Rock & Sage.
For more information, visit laurencamp.com or contact sgoslee@isu.edu with questions.
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