An Afternoon with Camille Dungy Sunday June 9 2024 at 4:00 PM
An Afternoon with Camille Dungy
Camille Dungy has been described as a poet of graceful wondering, extraordinary insight, and musical language that heals. In her latest book of essays, Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden, she writes, “Without resilience, what is hope but a passing fancy?" Join us for an afternoon with Camille Dungy and discover how resilient hope can be practiced by learning about, paying attention to, and tending the landscapes in which we live.
Pre-registration is required. Registration will close at 5 pm on June 7. A Zoom link will be sent to you 24 hours and again 2 hours before the program. If you do not receive the program link email, please check your Spam folder or email prayerandpilgrimage@cathedral.org.
Camille T. Dungy is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Trophic Cascade (Wesleyan UP, 2017), winner of the Colorado Book Award. She is also the author of the essay collections Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden (Simon & Schuster, 2023) and Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood and History (W.W. Norton, 2017), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Dungy has also edited anthologies including Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry and From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great. A 2019 Guggenheim Fellow, her honors include NEA Fellowships in poetry (2003) and prose (2018), an American Book Award, two NAACP Image Award nominations, and two Hurston/Wright Legacy Award nominations. Dungy’s poems have been published in Best American Poetry, The 100 Best African American Poems, the Pushcart Anthology, Best American Travel Writing, and over thirty other anthologies. She is University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University.
Camille Dungy has been described as a poet of graceful wondering, extraordinary insight, and musical language that heals. In her latest book of essays, Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden, she writes, “Without resilience, what is hope but a passing fancy?" Join us for an afternoon with Camille Dungy and discover how resilient hope can be practiced by learning about, paying attention to, and tending the landscapes in which we live.
Pre-registration is required. Registration will close at 5 pm on June 7. A Zoom link will be sent to you 24 hours and again 2 hours before the program. If you do not receive the program link email, please check your Spam folder or email prayerandpilgrimage@cathedral.org.
Camille T. Dungy is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Trophic Cascade (Wesleyan UP, 2017), winner of the Colorado Book Award. She is also the author of the essay collections Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden (Simon & Schuster, 2023) and Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood and History (W.W. Norton, 2017), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Dungy has also edited anthologies including Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry and From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great. A 2019 Guggenheim Fellow, her honors include NEA Fellowships in poetry (2003) and prose (2018), an American Book Award, two NAACP Image Award nominations, and two Hurston/Wright Legacy Award nominations. Dungy’s poems have been published in Best American Poetry, The 100 Best African American Poems, the Pushcart Anthology, Best American Travel Writing, and over thirty other anthologies. She is University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University.