Events
“Dungy places such an utter faith in language’s incantatory and restorative powers.”
—David Wojan
Join Camille for a virtual creative conversation with Charif Shanahan hosted by the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics at the University of Pittsburgh.
Headline Event with Kweku Abimbola, Kevin McLellan, and Alexandria Peary
“Please join the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke Arts, and the Sarah P. Duke Gardens for an evening with award-winning poet and memoirist Camille Dungy. Dungy will read and discuss her memoir Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden. Book-signing and reception to follow. Co-sponsored by the Department of African and African American Studies and Department of English.”
“Plenaries” with Rick Lindroth and Camille T. Dungy
Join Camille for 2 events: Featured Poet Panel and Featured Poet Performance!
“Please join us for a special Sunday afternoon event and reception with award-winning poet and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist in criticism Camille T. Dungy, who will read from Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden. In Soil, Dungy recounts the seven-year odyssey to diversify her garden in the predominantly white community of Fort Collins, Colorado. When she moved there in 2013, with her husband and daughter, the community held strict restrictions about what residents could and could not plant in their gardens. In resistance to the homogenous policies that limited the possibility and wonder that grows from the earth, Dungy employs the various plants, herbs, vegetables, and flowers she grows in her garden as metaphor and treatise for how homogeneity threatens the future of our planet, and why cultivating diverse and intersectional language in our national discourse about the environment is the best means of protecting it.”