Poet Cameon Wade on Creative Instinct and a Life Shaped by Story

Moving between the written, spoken and on-screen world, she is creating a growing body of work and personal style that reflects the same lived-in honesty

By: The Lace Ledger Staff

Not every poet is easy to recognize.

There’s no uniform. No fixed setting. No single way the work is supposed to appear. No perfect moment or atmosphere. The muse turns up in trenches, and a working poet but be prepared.

Cameon Wade creates on the move, telling stories in real time that readers recognize themselves inside. Her work evolves as she does.

In doing so, she has carved out a space in contemporary poetry that meets people where they are, giving language to difficult experiences that often struggle to discuss and, in the process, making them feel a little less alone.

Here, we meet her in that movement, following how ideas take shape and how they are expressed, offering us a glimpse into the life of working poet, in real time.