Camille Dungy Poetry Weekend Readings

Friday, February 26, 2010
7 p.m.
Student Reading
Free and open to the public

Saturday, February 27, 2010
7 p.m.
Reading with Camille Dungy and Niki Herd
$5 suggested donation
Open to the public

As part of Casa Libre's upcoming Poetry Weekend, we will have two nights of fantastic readings that are open to the public.

On Friday, February 26, students who are participating in the Poetry Weekend workshops will be reading from their work. Students include:

Samuel Ace
Lisa Bowden
JenMarie Davis
Gary Keister
Kristen Nelson
Travis Macdonald
TC Tolbert

On Saturday, February 27, Camille Dungy and Niki Herd (bios below) will read from their work. Camille's newest book Suck on the Marrow will be on sale at the reading, and she will be available for book signings.

Camille Dungy Bio:
Camille T. Dungy is author of Suck on the Marrow (Red Hen Press, January 2010) and What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison (Red Hen Press, 2006), a finalist for the PEN Center USA 2007 Literary Award and the Library of Virginia 2007 Literary Award.  She is editor of Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (UGA, 2009), and co-editor of From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great (Persea, 2009). Dungy has received fellowships from organizations including the National Endowment for the Arts, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, Cave Canem, the Dana Award, and Bread Loaf.  She is currently an associate professor in the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State University.

Niki Herd Bio:
Niki Herd has been published in forums such as Just like a Girl: A Manifesta!, From the Web: A Global Anthology of Women’s Political Poetry, The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South, Autumnal: A Collection of Elegies on compact disc, Kalliope, PMS: poemmemoirstory, 10x10.8, Xcp : Streetnotes Biannual Electronic Exhibition Space, and Black Issues Book Review. She has served on the board of Kore Press, an independent feminist publisher, was nominated for a Pushcart Award and won second place for the 2007 Astraea Emerging Lesbian Writer Award from the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Social Justice.

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