Hi folks, Hope you are staying well. I've wrapped up the school semester, and I'm making a trip back to the midwest (MI and IL) for some solo and full band shows this coming month. I hope you can join me! Advance tix available for all dates except 6.16 in Champaign....
CHICAGO!! It's been 8 years since Rodrigo Palma, Charlie Koltak, and I played a show in the city. We just announced one today. Tickets on sale now for The Widow Cameron, WED. JUNE 21st at Hideout Inn w/ special guest Slow Witch. Can we sell this out please? GET TIX love. cameron. ...
Hi, all, Thanks for selling out the first night in CU!!!! We have added a second show on Saturday, June 17, 2023 at Fire Doll Studio. Two sets (one solo & one w/ Charlie Koltak & Rodrigo Palma). We'll be celebrating the release of The Widow Cameron and playing songs from...
Hi, everyone, It's been too long...
Hi, friends, Our new album The Widow Cameron is now out and available wherever you listen!! Thanks for helping me spread the word. We just released a new video today for the song "Control," you can check it out here. We have 15 days left on our Indiegogo vinyl pre-order and...
Hi, all, Hoping you are well. Very excited to share that the limited double-vinyl pre-order for my new album The Widow Cameron is now LIVE on Indiegogo! Check out our funding campaign here! There's also a vid for the unreleased song "Control," available exclusively in the Indiegogo campaign. Enjoy! In some capacity,...
Hey there, Hope y'all are staying well. Here are links to videos for our first four singles: Horse Race, The Mirror, Attention, and Somebody's Talking from the forthcoming album, out 10.4.22! Some exciting vinyl pre-order news next week. Thanks for listening in! love.cameron. ...
Peoples, I would like to read some poems to you: in the car, in the bed, the bath, at the kitchen table, on a run, on the couch...
Well shit, that's one year since In the Night Field was published!!! Love and gratitude to Joe Pan, Kate Angus, Augury Books, and Brooklyn Arts Press for seeing this book through in the craziest of times, and to Jericho Brown, Dorianne Laux, Vijay Seshadri, and Campbell McGrath for blurbin the...
Hello, peoples, I hope you and yours are staying healthy and well. Yesterday, I had my first day back in the classroom at Washington State University since early-March 2020! Strangeways. Sending all the strength and care to teachers everywhere. Stay safe out there. I wanted to share some fun news with...
Hi, all, Hope you and yours are staying healthy and well as can be. What with playing music all these years, I just had to start a playlist for the new book In the Night Field. Here's the first installment...
Hello, dear peoples, I hope this finds you and yours staying healthy and well. First off, a big thank you!! to everyone who picked up a copy of my new book In The Night Field. I hope you're enjoying it. Happy to let you know that we sold out of our...
Peoples! Today is publication day for my first full-length collection of poems, In the Night Field. Eek!!!! The book is published by the wonderful folks at Augury Books / Brooklyn Arts Press and owes so much to my editor, Kate Angus, and publisher, Joe Pan. I couldn't be more excited to...
My peoples, hi. I hope this finds you and yours staying healthy and well. My first full-length collection of poems, In the Night Field, will be published on June 1 by Augury Books / Brooklyn Arts Press. I couldn't be more excited to share it with you. You may pre-order the...
Peoples, hi. Hope you and yours are staying well. Got some fun news to share. I'm grateful to Daniel Rottenberg for writing, and Raleigh Review for publishing, such a generous and insightful review of my chapbook, Meridians (Willow Springs Books, 2020). Check out the review here, starts on page 65. You...
Hi, everyone, I hope you and yours are staying healthy and well. Wanted to let you know about a few creative happenings I have this week. I recorded a poetry and songwriting discussion with fellow poet and musician Jason Graham (aka MOsley WOtta) for this week's Get Lit! Festival 2021 in Spokane, WA. It airs tonight,...
My peoples, hi! I miss your faces, and I hope you're staying safe, healthy, and well. I couldn't be more excited to share that my debut poetry collection, In the Night Field, is now available for pre-order from Augury Books, an imprint of Brooklyn Arts Press! The book's official publication date...
Peoples, hi. I hope this finds you safe and healthy. I’m thrilled to share that my poetry manuscript In the Night Field will be published in 2021 by Augury Books, an imprint of Brooklyn Arts Press! Thank you, Kate Angus and Joe Pan for giving this book a home. My congrats...
Friends, I hope this finds you safe and healthy. I'm spending the day making my plan for taking sustained action against racist policies and institutions. Below are organizations where you can donate and join/continue the fight against anti-Black racism and institutionalized and state-sanctioned violence. Feel free to share any additional resources...
My peoples, hi. I'm over the moon to have four poems up today at Terrain.org. A big thank you to eds. Simmons Buntin and Derek Sheffield for publishing my work. Pay them a visit here to learn more; it's a beautiful journal that has been publishing online since 1997. They have kindly added...
My peoples, If you missed it last week, here's an interview I did with Chris Maccini of NPR's Spokane Public Radio. We talked about the new book, Meridians, available from Willow Springs Books, and I read a few pomes. I also recorded a Poetry Moment session, & it'll air each morning...
My peoples, hi. After releasing six albums and three EPs over the last fifteen years, I'm over the moon to share with you my first collection of poems. Meridians is now available from Willow Springs Books.You may order it here. The book will be distributed by the University of Washington Press. For that...
My peoples, I'm grateful to have had the opportunity to read and talk pomes from the new book with Chris Maccini of NPR's Spokane Public Radio. Audio of our conversation is up on spokanepublicradio.org in today's Northwest Arts Review. Listen here. For Spokane-area folks, it will also air today (1/30) at...
My peoples, hi. I'm excited to share that my poem "The Orphan" has been selected by Douglas Kearney as the runner-up in the Western Humanities Review Mountain West Writers' Contest and will appear in their Spring 2020 issue! And a poetry first for me...
My peoples, hi. After releasing six albums and two EPs over the last fifteen years, I'm excited to share the discounted pre-order link to my first book Meridians, available from Willow Springs Books. The book will be shipped in the coming month with an official release date of February 1, 2020....
My peoples, hi. Fun to see Salem Collo-Julin's Lit Feature in yesterday's Chicago Reader, Arts & Culture section!! They featured several of Chicago's Live Lit shows, including the Tuesday Funk readings at Hopleaf. I'll be a featured reader there on January 7, 2020, along with Dmitry Samarov, Darshita Jain, Michael Palmer, & Maggie...
My peoples, hi. I'm excited to share that my poem "At The Bar" was named a finalist for the Laux/Millar Poetry prize, and appears in the current Fall '19 issue of Raleigh Review. A meridian from my forthcoming chapbook was named runner-up for Sonora Review's Poetry Contest, and appears in their...
Hi all. I'm excited to return as a guest to the Tuesday Funk reading series. I'll be reading some pomes from my forthcoming chapbook, Meridians, on Tuesday January 7 in the upstairs bar at Hopleaf. Doors at 7pm/reading 7:30, 21+. Hope to see you all. love. cameron. ...
My peoples, hi. I'm excited to let you know that I will be playing a solo show at Evanston SPACE in Evanston, IL on Sunday July 21, opening for friends David Singer & the Sweet Science. Show is all-Ages, doors 6:30/show 7:30. Advance tix available. Hope to see you. love....
My peoples, hi. I couldn't be more excited to share news that Willow Springs Books will be publishing my poetry chapbook, Meridians, this coming fall as Volume 11 in their ACME Poetry Series! Had my first phone call with the editors yesterday and am very excited about working with them...
For the first time in a long while, I'm happy to announce a few solo shows!?! I'll be playing a set on the piano at the Underwater Sunshine Fest in NYC on April 5/6 @ The Bowery Electric. My set date and time will be announced in the coming weeks....
My peoples, hi. I hope this finds you. Couple items to share your way. I'm excited to have several meridians appear in the forthcoming issues of Beloit Poetry Journal, CutBank, Grist, and The Meadow. Pay 'em a visit, and get yourself a copy! I'll be reading on Friday March 1...
Hi all, I want to share with you a new piece titled "[FACTS] VELOCITIES." Thank you to the editors at Lunch Review for publishing it. This poem is one contribution to advocacy for sensible gun legislation in America. It does not seek to address all types of gun violence (though hopes to advocate for...
Hello friends, The good folks at New Michigan Press / DIAGRAM have chosen my chapbook, Meridians, as a finalist for the 2018 Chapbook Contest! Very honored to be in the mix—big congrats to the winners and finalists...
Hello my peoples, Welcome to the newly designed site, courtesy of Andy Whorehall. You can get to both the words & the musics from here. Hope you enjoy it. Few other news items for ya...