Poetry Reading: Camille Dungy
| Date/Time: | Thursday, 15 Apr 2010 at 7:00 pm |
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| Location: | Pioneer Room, Memorial Union |
| Cost: | Free |
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| Phone: | 515-294-9934 |
| Channel: | Lecture Series |
| Categories: | Arts, performances Lectures |
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She is coeditor of From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great, and her poetry collection What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison was a finalist for the PEN Center USA 2007 Literary Award and the Library of Virginia 2007 Literary Award.
Dungy lives in San Francisco, where she is an associate professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University. She is assistant editor of Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade, editor of Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, the recipient of several prominent writing fellowships, and a former artist-in-residence at Rocky Mountain National Park.