What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison: a Poetry Reading by Camile Dungy

Part of Eco-Voices: a Reading Series on the Environmental Imagination

What	Creative Writing
When	Thursday, April 15, 2010 07:00 PM Thursday, April 15, 2010 08:30 PM Thu, Apr 15, 2010 from 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm
Where	Pioneer Room, Memorial Union
Contact Name	Debra Marquart
Contact Email	marquart@iastate.edu
Contact Phone	515-294-2180
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Camile T. Dungy is the author of the poetry collection, What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison, which was a finalist for the PEN Center USA 2007 Literary Award and the Library of Virginia 2007 Literary Award. Camille T. Dungy has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Virginia Commission for the Arts, the Dana Award, and Bread Loaf.

Assistant editor of Cave Canem’s Gathering Ground, Dungy is an associate professor of Creative Writing at San Francisco State University. Recently, she edited the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African-American writers, Black Nature: Four Centuries of African-American Nature Poetry.