Reading by Poet Camille Dungy
Venue: Alumni Assembly Hall (Holtzman Alumni Center), Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Thursday, September 12, 2013
Time: 7:00 - 8:00 PM
Event Types: Speaking Engagements
Cost: Free

Description:
The Virginia Tech Department of English Visiting Writers Series presents a reading by poet Camille Dungy on Thursday, September 12th at Alumni Assembly Hall at The Inn at Virginia Tech.

Camille Dungy is author of Smith Blue (Southern Illinois University Press, 2011), winner of the 2010 Crab Orchard Open Book Prize, Suck on the Marrow (Red Hen Press, 2010), and What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison (Red Hen Press, 2006). Dungy is editor of Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (UGA, 2009), co-editor of From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great (Persea, 2009), and assistant editor of Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade (University of Michigan Press, 2006).

Dungy has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, Cave Canem, the Dana Award, and Bread Loaf. She is a two-time recipient of the Northern California Book Award (2010 and 2011), a Silver Medal Winner in the California Book Award (2011), and a two-time NAACP Image Award nominee (2010 and 2011). Dungy is currently a Professor in the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State University.

For more information on Camille Dungy, visit: http://www.camilledungy.com/

This event is free and open to the public.

For more information, visit: http://www.english.vt.edu/news-events/event-items/event20130827.html

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