“Poetry Days Presents: An Evening with Camille T. Dungy” will showcase Dungy’s poetry and her ability to cross genres as she did in her latest publication, Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden (Simon & Schuster, 2023). Dungy’s talk will take place at Boston College on October 9 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall 100. Dungy is the author of four collections of poetry, including the award-winning Trophic Cascade. She is the editor of the anthology Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, the first anthology to bring African American environmental poetry to national attention. At the intersection of prose, nature writing, and environmental justice, Soil is about Dungy’s seven-year odyssey to diversify her garden in the predominately white community of Fort Collins, Colorado. She is a University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University. Her appearance is presented by BC’s Lowell Humanities Series and cosponsored by Boston College Poetry Days, the American Studies Program, and the English Department. The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. (Photo by Beowulf Sheehan)