What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison: A Poetry Reading
Camille Dungy
Thursday, 15 Apr 2010 at 7:00 pm – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union
Camille Dungy is cofounder of From the Fishouse, a nonprofit organization that promotes the oral tradition of poetry. She is coeditor of From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great, and her poetry collection What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison was a finalist for the PEN Center USA 2007 Literary Award and the Library of Virginia 2007 Literary Award. Dungy lives in San Francisco, where she is an associate professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University. She is assistant editor of Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade, editor of Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, the recipient of several prominent writing fellowships, and a former artist-in-residence at Rocky Mountain National Park. Part of the Eco-Voices Series.Cosponsored By:
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Humanities Iowa
- MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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