Is Is Enough: Poems

by Lauren Camp

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.

Genres: Poetry

86 pages, Paperback

Published February 18, 2026

About the author

Lauren Camp served as the second New Mexico Poet Laureate from 2022-25, and spearheaded the New Mexico Epic Poem Project, a series of visits to rural communities that will result in broadsides, an exhibit and an anthology. 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 out of her experience as Astronomer-in-Residence at Grand Canyon National Park and won the New Mexico Book Award. One Hundred Hungers (Tupelo Press, 2016), was a finalist for the Arab American Book Award and awarded the Dorset Prize. Her poems have appeared in The Nation, Kenyon Review, Poem-a-Day, and The Slowdown and have been translated into Mandarin, Turkish, Spanish, French, and Arabic. Other honors include fellowships from the Academy of American Poets and Black Earth Institute, and finalist citations for the Big Other Book Award and Adrienne Rich Award.
www.laurencamp.com