Each poem is a contained anecdote that blossoms into a larger idea. “In both realms, I’m interested in questions like, ‘What do we know?’ and ‘How do we know it?’ Just as you might set out to figure out the way muscle patterning works, for example, I wanted to decode the bewildering experience of walking around the world as a black person and as a trans person.”Īwkward-Rich’s sophomore poetry collection, “Dispatch,” meditates on these questions in regard to friendship and family, police brutality, historical cases of gender presentation, and more. While he worked his lab hours at Wesleyan University, he realized that conducting experiments had many similarities to writing poetry. (Courtesy) This article is more than 3 years old.īefore Cameron Awkward-Rich became a poet, he had been studying to become a scientist.
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