Camille Dungy
BookPage has released a review of SOIL!
“In her radical and vibrant memoir, Camille Dungy plants poems next to critical analysis next to environmental history next to African American history.”
Read the review here!
Camille has a new article in the Washington Post
Read “Last year’s sunflowers save this year’s garden” here!
Camille answers the Orion questionnaire.
In which [the magazine gets] to know [their] favorite writers better by exploring the sacred and mundane. Read the conversation here!
SOIL has been reviewed by Publisher’s Weekly!
“Fans of Dungy’s poetry will delight in her sparkling prose, and the wide-ranging meditations highlight the connections between land, freedom, and race. It’s a lyrical and pensive take on what it means to put down roots.”
Camille’s work is featured on the Breaking Form podcast!
Podcast hosts James Allen Hall and Aaron Smith and guest poet Diane Seuss read and discusses poems by Camille Dungy, Richard Siken and Whitman. Listen here!
The audio book of the 1619 Project is up for an Audie Award!
Camille is one of the many narrators for her poem “On Brevity” about the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. More here!
The Atlantic published Camille’s essay today!
“The idea that Black people can write out of a personal relationship to nature and have done so since before this nation’s founding comes to many as a shock.” Read more here.
Camille’s poem, “Elegy beginning in the shade of Aunt Mary’s mulberry tree,” was featured on Verse Daily on January 19!
Read the poem and learn about Tree Lines, the anthology that includes her poem, here.
Check out Camille’s Instagram this week to follow her recommendations for your holiday reading!
@camilledungy