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Cortney Lamar Charleston

Cortney Lamar Charleston is the author of three full-length poetry collections: Telepathologies (Saturnalia Books, 2017), selected by D.A. Powell for the 2016 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize; Doppelgangbanger (Haymarket Books, 2021), named a best book of 2021 by the New York Public Library and The Boston Globe; and It’s Important I Remember (Curbstone Books/Northwestern University Press, 2026). He was awarded a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, and he has also received fellowships from Cave Canem and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Charleston currently serves on the Haymarket Books Poetry Advisory Board.

Poems, Poetry, Rumpus Originals

Cortney Lamar Charleston

Apr 2, 2026

National Poetry Month: “SUPER BOWL LX: BENITO”

Meaning the Boricua, not the brutish brain that argued Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State; meaning the man of the island outside US borders but not outside US possession, the descendant of sugarcane and…
Poems, Poetry, Rumpus Original

Cortney Lamar Charleston

Feb 8, 2018

Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Cortney Lamar Charleston

All the imaginary people I knew always started / their imaginary stories saying “I,” which always exposed them / as fools.

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Cortney Lamar Charleston

National Poetry Month: “SUPER BOWL LX: BENITO”

Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Cortney Lamar Charleston