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Camille Dungy

Central Library [1000 Grand Avenue]
Wednesday, April 14 at 7:00 PM

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Poet Camille T. Dungy will stop by the Central Library to share her recently published collection, Suck on the Marrow. She is also the author of 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, and currently serves as editor of Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for literature.

Camille's Reccomended Books
Property by Valerie Martin 
Slave Moth by Thylias Moss
Dessa Rose by Sherley Anne Williams
Kindred by Octavia Butler
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Flight to Canada by Ishmeal Reed

 

Moderated by Kathy Holdefer

AUTHORS

 
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