The Poetry Project

Camonghne Felix

Black woman with braided hair over her right shoulder in a black dress cut off below the breasts.

Camonghne Felix is the author of Build Yourself a Boat (Haymarket Books, 2019), which was long-listed for the 2019 National Book Award in Poetry, Dyscalculia (One World, 2023), and Let the Poets Govern, which was published in March of 2026. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Academy of American Poets, Harvard Review, Poetry Magazine, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, and elsewhere.