Camille T. Dungy is the author of Smith Blue, Suck on the Marrow, and What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison. She edited Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry and coedited the From the Fishouse poetry anthology. Her honors include an American Book Award, two Northern California Book Awards, a California Book Award silver medal, and a fellowship from the NEA. Dungy is currently a professor in the English Department at Colorado State University. Her forthcoming collection of poems, Trophic Cascade, will be published by Wesleyan University Press in February 2017.
July/Aug 2022
Only Child
She thinks I don’t think she could make a good sister. That I don’t trust her capacity for care. Poor girl. Night sweats wake me and the wind shrieks along. […]
Nature's Nature: A Gathering of Poetry
May/June 2015
Trophic Cascade
After the reintroduction of gray wolves to Yellowstone and, as anticipated, their culling of deer, trees grew beyond the deer stunt of the midcentury. In their up reach songbirds nested, who […]
Camille T. Dungy
Camille T. Dungy is the author of Smith Blue, Suck on the Marrow, and What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison. She edited Black Nature: Four […]