Camille Dungy

Jul 3, 2024 | poets.org | Liv Mammone |Camille Dungy |Albert Goldbarth |Natalie Eilbert

Skip to main contentFind and share the perfect poems. If the pain doesn’t come back,  what will I write about? Will the poems  have tendon and teeth? I didn’t get  right the sonnet of all its colors. I did not find the exact dagger of phrase  about the long loss of my life. Hope is all I do and am. I don’t think I’m poet enough  to make you taste this mango;  or see that sutured sunset unless  from a hospital bed. I was good for carving. There will be kisses, music, street names.

Mar 27, 2024 | thenation.com | Camille Dungy

Poems / Ad PolicyThat stretch of coast like the soft spotin your self, the heart of your self I callyour soul. That feeling that comes there, when fog settlesso truly I know I am walking insidea cloud. Intangible. Tangible. Bothat once. Sweetheart, I need to tell you somethingafter we finish, tonight, with this dinnerI’m preparing—rainbow chard wilted in oilwith shallots and pepitas, herb-rubbed chickenalready roasting.

Feb 12, 2024 | memoirland.substack.com | Abdelrahman ElGendy |Natasha Varner |Camille Dungy |Lynn A. Cunningham

Welcome to Memoir Land—a newsletter edited by , now featuring four verticals:Memoir Monday, a weekly curation of the best personal essays from around the web brought to you by Narratively, The Rumpus,  Granta, Guernica, Oldster Magazine, Literary Hub, Orion Magazine, The Walrus, and Electric Literature. Below is this week’s curation. First Person Singular, featuring original personal essays. Recently I published “War Creates Many Orphans” by and guest edited by . A new essay is coming soon.

Feb 8, 2024 | blog.nwf.org | Camille Dungy |George Washington Carver |Gene Barretta |Frank Morrison

This Black History Month, we are uplifting Black leaders that have made a difference by sharing personal, ancestral, and contemporary connections with nature, gardening, and community education. Written by George Washington CarverGeorge Washington Carver is often recognized for his inventions involving new uses for the peanut and sweet potato. As an author and botanist, he was also an advocate for nature study in schools and the nature study movement which began in the late 1800s.

Feb 5, 2024 | audacity.substack.com | Elizabeth Rush |Camille Dungy |Roxane Gay

AUDACIOUS BOOKCLUB HAPPENINGSOur February book club selection is Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar. We will be in conversation with Kaveh on February 27th at 8 pm EST/5 pm PST. Registration is now open.