A Few Prompts Drawn From Wandering/Home July 31, 2009: [caption id="attachment_4516" align="aligncenter" width="273" caption="Two poets at Faulkner's pad (C. Dungy and Major Jackson in Oxford, MS)"][/caption] As I feared when I packed my life into boxes this spring, plenty is still lost to the inside of paper-walled containers.  My copy of Flight to Canada must still be boxed up in cardboard, [...] by Camille Dungy

Not finished yet June 29, 2009: [caption id="attachment_3877" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Harvey Milk Plaza, San Francisco, 6/28/09 (photo: C. Dungy)"][/caption] The street sweepers have passed, and the crowd control fences have been carried away.  Pride, for some, is over and done.  But for many, the persistent resistance that Pride weekend celebrates still [...] by Camille Dungy

The Fish June 24, 2009: Once or twice a year I shut off my cell phone and computer and spend a stretch of time in the great wide open.  Or in some approximation of the great wide open.  I always get plenty of juice out there, and I come back refreshed and full of ideas.  That’s where I’ve been the last couple weeks, Harriet, running out in the great wide [...] by Camille Dungy

No Pause for Breath June 12, 2009: I was talking to a friend today about one-sentence poems I love. (more...) by Camille Dungy

Five Canadian Women Eco-Poets June 4, 2009: I’m in Canada right now at the biennial conference for Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE).  In honor of my host nation, I thought I’d write about a few Canadian women poets whose work I enjoy. (more...) by Camille Dungy

Spelling bee! May 30, 2009: I watched the Scripps National Spelling Bee last night. (more...) by Camille Dungy

And the poet said… May 28, 2009: I want to  share a half dozen of my favorite quotes about the process and charges of poetry. I’d love to hear what you think of these (some of them are, purposefully, provocative). I’d also like for you to share some of your own favorites. (more...) by Camille Dungy

Do Poets Dream of Lineated Sheep? May 26, 2009: Quick survey.  Do you think the way you dream relates to the way you write? (more...) by Camille Dungy

Speaking of batting averages… May 23, 2009: Boston (well, actually, Somerville) is the first city I lived in after receiving my poetic license.  Here again now, enjoying the sun off the Charles and the good food at Toro and the many offerings at the American Literature Association Annual Conference, I’m wondering what it means to be a publishing poet. (more...) by Camille Dungy

Box by Box May 20, 2009: My life is a life of boxes. It’s temporary, I trust. The hope, when one puts her whole life into boxes, is that, soon, her whole life will be out of boxes.  But my parents speak, sometimes, of the as yet unpacked boxes they packed when they moved into their current house (that move happened in 1986) and so I fear, each time I pack another [...] by Camille Dungy