Watch Camille talk about it here!
Read Camille’s interview about SOIL published with The Rumpus
“At one point in the book, Dungy addresses questions about Soil’s content: “But what’s with all this history? This book is supposed to be about my garden. And it is.”Dungy describes the book as a bit like a compass rose: resembling a sun with rays shooting off, and covering a lot of ground. “I wanted the experience of reading the book almost to not feel linear, to feel circular and radiating in the way that I think. That’s how I experience life.”
Author of nine books of poetry, Dungy and I spoke on the phone to discuss writing cross-genre, the importance of bringing your people onto the page, and planting seeds but being open to surprise.”
More here!
Listen to Camille chat about SOIL on NPR’s All Things Considered
SOIL is one of Washington Post’s “10 noteworthy books for May”!
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!