Lawrence Ypil (b. 1978)

1. BIOGRAPHY

2. CRITICAL INTRODUCTION

3. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

4. SELECTED POEMS

• Porch

• Childhood

• Aria

• recollect

• The Nature of a City

• The Experiment of the Tropics

• In the Manner of Thinking

• For Every Man

BIOGRAPHY

Lawrence Lacambra Ypil is a poet and essayist whose work explores the intersection of text and image, and the role of material culture in the construction of cultural identity.

In 2020, he was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards and on the longlist for The Believer Book Awards for The Experiment of the Tropics, the winner of the inaugural Gaudy Boy Book Prize. His recent chapbook, Ventanilla:Duet, co-authored with historian Martin Dusinberre, was a finalist for the Essay Press Chapbook prize. 

Lawrence has received Masters of Fine Arts degrees from Washington University in St. Louis and from the Nonfiction Writing Program of the University of Iowa.

He has taught creative writing at Yale-NUS College and NUS College, where he has been a poetry mentor to many students.

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