Is Is Enough: An Evening with Lauren Camp

Schedule

Wed, 13 May, 2026 at 06:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

414 Walnut Street 11th & 12th Floors, Cincinnati, OH, United States, Ohio 45202 | Cincinnati, OH

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with support by Holly Brians Ragusa
Is Is Enough marks an endless amount of transformation by looking most closely at the ambiguous effects of Alzheimer’s Disease on a father and his daughter, the strength of their bond, disintegrating memories, and unexpected futures. These are poems of awareness, astonishment, absence and candid revelation.
Is Is Enough begins in heritage and harmony then breaks apart into the strange world and tautly stretched emotions that accompany dementia. The collection flickers through and locates in distorted realities, loss, and gentling. By haunting the past, the author reweaves and reorients against a continual vanishing. Ordinary situations begin to seem like joy in reverse, a treatise on the honesty of the present.
6 pm reception/6:30 pm program
Free & open to the public. Registration required.
Copies of Is Is Enough will be available for sale & signing.
About Lauren Camp
Lauren Camp served as the second New Mexico Poet Laureate (2022-25), and spearheaded the New Mexico Epic Poem Project. She is the author of nine poetry collections, most recently Is Is Enough (Texas Review Press, 2026) and In Old Sky (Grand Canyon Conservancy, 2024), which grew from her role as Astronomer-in-Residence at Grand Canyon National Park. Honors include fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, a Dorset Prize, the New Mexico Book Award and finalist citations for the Arab American Book Award, and Adrienne Rich Award. Her poems have been translated into Mandarin, Turkish, Spanish, French, and Arabic. www.laurencamp.com
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