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Jackson Hole Writer’s Conference
Keynote w/ Camille T. Dungy
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Camille T. Dungy, is the author of “Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden.” “Soil” was named book of the month by Hudsons Booksellers, received the 2024 Award of Excellence in Garden and Nature Writing from The Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries, and was on the short list for the PEN/Jean Stein Award. Dungy has also written four collections of poetry, including “Trophic Cascade,” winner of the Colorado Book Award, and the essay collection, “Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History,” a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
In “Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden” poet and scholar Camille T. Dungy recounts the seven-year odyssey to diversify her garden in the predominantly white community of Fort Collins, Colorado. When she moved there in 2013, with her husband and daughter, the community held strict restrictions about what residents could and could not plant in their gardens.
In resistance to the homogenous policies that limited the possibility and wonder that grows from the earth, Dungy employs the various plants, herbs, vegetables, and flowers she grows in her garden as metaphor and treatise for how homogeneity threatens the future of our planet, and why cultivating diverse and intersectional language in our national discourse about the environment is the best means of protecting it.
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