Camille Dungy
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Camille T. Dungy (born 1972) is an American poet and professor.
Career
Born in
University of North Carolina, Greensboro, where she earned her MFA.[1]
She is the author of four poetry collections – Trophic Cascade (
New Daughters of Africa.[4]
Dungy's honors include fellowships from the
NAACP Image Award nominee.[5][6] Recently a professor in the Creative Department at San Francisco State University (2011–2013), she is currently a professor in the English Department at Colorado State University.[7] In 2019, Dungy was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for her poetry.[8][9]
Awards
- 2019: Guggenheim Fellowship
- 2013: Sustainable Arts Foundations Promise Award
- 2011: American Book Award
- 2011: California Book Award Silver Medal
- 2011: Northern California Book Award
- 2010: Crab Orchard Open Poetry Series
- 2010: Northern California Book Award
- 2007: Dana Award in Poetry
- 2003: National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
Published works
Full-length poetry collections
- Trophic Cascade, Wesleyan University Press, 2016
- Smith Blue, Southern Illinois University Press, 2011
- Suck on the Marrow, Red Hen Press, 2010
- What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison, Red Hen Press, 2006
Essays
- Guidebook to Relative Strangers, W.W. Norton, 2017
- Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden, Simon & Schuster, 2023
Editor
- Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, University of Georgia Press, 2009
- Toi Derricotte; Cornelius Eady; Camille T. Dungy, eds. (2006). Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade. University of Michigan Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0-472-06924-8.
Camille Dungy.
- Camille T. Dungy; Matt O'Donnell; Jeffrey Thomson, eds. (2009). From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems That Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great. Persea Books. ISBN 978-0-89255-348-8.
Anthologies
- Lucille Lang Day and Ruth Nolan (eds.), Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California. Scarlet Tanager Books, 2018
- Melissa Tuckey (ed.), Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology. University of Georgia Press, 2018
- Charles Rowell (ed.),Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry, New York: W. W. Norton, 2013
- Anne Fisher-Wirth and Laura-Gray Street (eds), The Ecopoetry Anthology, Trinity University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-1595341464
- Joshua Corey and G. C. Waldrep (eds), The Arcadia Project, Ahsahta Press, 2012
- New California Writing. Heyday Books, 2012
- Emily Rosko and Anton VanderZee (eds), A Broken Thing: Poets on the Line. The University of Iowa Press, 2011
- Alison Deming and Lauret Savoy (eds), The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World. Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 2011
- Nikki Giovanni (ed.), The 100 Best African American Poems. Sourcebooks: 2010
- Julie Greicius and Elissa Bassist (eds), Rumpus Women, Vol. I, The Rumpus Book Club, 2010
- The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems from the San Francisco Bay Watershed. San Francisco, CA: Sixteen Rivers Press, 2010
- ISBN 978-0-8203-2926-0.
- Gerry LaFemina; Chad Prevost, eds. (2006). Evensong: Contemporary American Poets on Spirituality. Bottom Dog Press, 2006. ISBN 978-1-933964-01-0.
References
- ^ "Camille T. Dungy", Poetry Foundation.
- ^ "Camille T. Dungy", From the Fishouse – an audio archive of emerging poets.
- ^ "Poetry". The Missouri Review. University of Missouri--Columbia. Dept of English: 135–137. 2001.
- ^ "The New Daughters of Africa". New Internationalist. 2019-04-17. Retrieved 2021-06-06.
- ^ "Torch > Camille T. Dungy Bio and Poems". Archived from the original on 2009-06-10. Retrieved 2009-07-22.
- ^ Bio, Camille T. Dungy website.
- ^ "Camille Dungy" at Colorado State University.
- ^ Udell, Erin. "CSU English professor awarded prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship". Coloradoan. Retrieved 2020-01-29.
- ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Camille T. Dungy". Retrieved 2020-01-29.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Camille T. Dungy.
- Official website
- "Camille T. Dungy", Kenyon Reviewinterview
- Audio Reading: Camille Dungy Reading, From the Fishouse
- Interview with Dungy on Words on a Wire
- Poems: "Her mother sings warning of the new world; The Development of the Scientific Mind; The New Hand on the Place Sets His Sights on Molly; Dinah in the Bedroom; Conditions of the Sale". Torch. Fall 2007. Archived from the original on 2009-06-10. Retrieved 2009-07-22.
- Black Nature: Poems Of Promise And Survival - audio report by NPR
- Appearances on C-SPAN
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