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All We Can Save: The Power of Ancestral Wisdom, with Camille Dungy

Camille T. Dungy is the author of four collections of poetry and the author of the essay collections Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden (Simon & Schuster, 2023) and Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood and History (W.W. Norton, 2017). Dungy has also edited anthologies including Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry. A 2019 Guggenheim Fellow, her honors include NEA Fellowships in poetry (2003) and prose (2018), an American Book Award, two NAACP Image Award nominations, and two Hurston/Wright Legacy Award nominations. She is University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University.

Camille will be hosted in conversation with Imani Wadud, PhD Candidate in American Studies & Megan Kaminski, Professor of English and Environmental Studies.

 Register at https://bit.ly/DungyKU

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