Camonghne Felix
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Cave Canem Fellow & Political Strategist!
Camonghne Felix is a brilliant writer, thinker, imaginer, builder—a young leader who shifts and opens the possibilities for a more just, better lit world, with each step, each word, each question.
--Kathy Engel, Chair of Tisch School of the Arts’ Dept. of Art & Public Policy 
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Camonghne Felix, M.A. is a poet, a writer, speaker, & political strategist living in New York City. She received an M.A. in Arts Politics from NYU, an MFA from Bard College, & has received Fellowships from Cave Canem, Callaloo & Poets House.
Her first full-length collection of poems, Build Yourself a Boat, was a 2017 University of Wisconsin Press Brittingham & Pollak Prize finalist, a 2017 Fordham University Poets Out Loud semi-finalist, & is forthcoming from Haymarket Books in 2019. The author of the chapbook Yolk, she was recently listed by Black Youth Project as a "Black Girl From the Future You Should Know." As a political strategist, Camonghne implements, designs, & drives full communication & branding strategies for progressive campaigns & organizations while working across a range of issues including racial justice, gender equity, criminal justice, homelessness, & education. Currently, at Ms. Foundation For Women, the oldest feminist organization in the country, Camonghne is a Sr. Manager of Strategic Communications. In 2015, Camonghne was appointed as a Speechwriter to Governor Andrew Cuomo, making her the first African-American female speechwriter, and the youngest speechwriter to serve a New York State governor. Felix's work has been published in BuzzFeed, Poetry Magazine, Apogee, The Offing, the Academy of American Poets website, & more. She's also been featured in New York Women's Foundation Magazine, Brooklyn Poets, Politico, Teen Vogue digital, Huffington Post & more. Twitter: @Camonghne Instagram: @Camonghne |
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Key Topics
What sustains is growth, because here we go still trying to become who we are after all this time, in the aftermath of all this capture, this burden. Yolk proclaims its infusion with yoke, like how the way we grow is marked by what we have to carry, like how Camonghne makes me think come on! let’s go! let’s move in this, through this, like somebody carrying on as she’s coming up, smoking and skipping, testing and testifying, sounding and sounding, studying black life, which is the only life, to learn how to carry, and nourish. Camonghne Felix’s poems sing this, and they do this, too. —Fred Moten, author of The Feel Trio |
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