“Esteemed author and poet Camille Dungy visits UNO for a reading and discussion”
“On Monday evening, Camille Dungy shot onto stage with a powerful presence that not only commanded the room, but created a relaxed, fun environment.
Hosted by UNO’s Tell All The Truth Project, Writer’s Workshop, College of Arts and Sciences and the English Department’s Creative Nonfiction program, Dungy gave a discussion about craft to students in the afternoon and gave a reading from her collection of work in the evening.
Dungy is an acclaimed poet and author, currently a professor at CSU and a winner of the Guggenheim fellowship. Her work centers around nature, motherhood, race and human connection.
In her afternoon talk she discussed the elements of craft, as used in her poetry collection, ‘Smith Blue’. She asked students to do a writing prompt and describe a place that is familiar to them using their most prominent of the five senses. After this, Dungy had students do the same exercise while writing about their least prominent sense.”