Episode 97: Camille Dungy

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Rachel Zucker speaks with poet, editor, professor Camille Dungy about birthday intentions, being “grounded” by Covid-19, and having to build new writing and sleeping practices. The two poet-mothers speak about uneasy blessings, family, childcare, resisting the inequality of access to beauty, leisure and art, saying no so you can say yes, working on a long prose project, and many other things.

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Books and Selected Other Work by Camille Dungy

POETRY

• Trophic Cascade (Wesleyan University Press, 2017)

• 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)

NON-FICTION

• Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History (W. W. Norton, 2017)

ANTHOLOGIES & EDITORIAL WORK

• Ed., Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (University of Georgia Press, 2009)

• Ed. with Matt O'Donnell & Jeffrey Thomson, From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great (Persea Books, 2009)

Also Referenced

• Guggenheim Fellowship

• Anne Lamott, Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son’s First Year

• Susan Sontag

• Dorothea Lange

• Toi Derricotte, Natural Birth

• Matt O’Donnell

• From the Fishhouse

• Sharon Olds

• Kimiko Hahn

• Brenda Hillman

• The Grand Permission: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood, ed. Brenda Hillman & Patricia Dienstfrey

• Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections, ed. Arielle Greenberg & Rachel Zucker

• Poets House

• Emory University Raymond Danowski Poetry Library, curated by Kevin Young

• Langston Hughes, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”

• Lucille Clifton

• Yusef Komunyakaa, Magic City

• Ed Roberson

• Marilyn Nelson

• Tiffany Han podcast
  
  

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